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Utilizing name-calling as a strategy

December 11, 2019 - 00:00
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The Trump cult, formerly known as the Republican Party, has announced a campaign strategy for 2020. Call every Democrat and all of their policy ideas “socialist.” The cult thinks this strategy, which may come with digital dirty tricks and help from Putin, will “Make America Great Again,” like it was in 1860. Simple but brilliant, the strategy depends on intelligent design. Or maybe not. Maybe name-calling is not a strategy; it’s more just schoolyard rhetoric - like “your mama” or “enemy of the people” or “snowflake” or “social justice warrior” or “D-rats.” It presumes that the name does the necessary convincing. In the Texana version, someone ...

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