Finally, the Democrats have found Trump’s Achilles heel: ridicule him

It took them 8 years to realize what Thomas Jefferson found out in 1816

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."

Bullies don't like when you hit back because they base their power on the fact that they think you're going to play by the rules while they're free to break them. You so much as look like youre bending a rule and they'll cry foul. Look at how Trump responded to Biden dropping out.

Well no shit, Sherlocks. Ever heard of "bully the bully"? Glad they're finally catching on. Took too long.

“The news is saying I don’t work as hard as my opponent. You know what I’ll go do? Golf some. That will show them how hard I work.”

Every time i have a dumb idea i just have to remember there is always a bigger idiot in the world. That always makes me feel better.

Trump has been ridiculed the whole time. The only people who treat him as a serious candidate are his supporters and the media. That was true in 2015, that's true today.

Toxic masculinity always hates being laughed at. It’s that Margaret Atwood quote all over again. Too applicable when you consider complete abortion bans and project 2025.

Christ. He’s so obviously bald up top, what a fucking ridiculous combover.

I thought we figured this out way back when he was losing his mind over the "small hands" thing.

This is not his Achilles heel. His Achilles heel is doubt. Populism depends on belief, and is inherently unstable. He started doubting. His people stated doubting. He is now going down, and the ridicule he always dishes out now also lands for him.

The mockery of him has been constant from day one.

Wait, you're telling me that the man that constantly calls people names and ridiculed his Republican presidential opponents can't take the heat?

They are just now learning this

This is a thing that's been known for literal decades. Obama knew about it. Biden as well. They just chose not to sink to that level and punch back. Instead of using him like Neville Chamberlain and treating him like an actual legislator. Which was a huge mistake. Only giving people the impression that Obama and Biden were largely out of touch and aloof. All anyone has to do is go ask the person who coined the term shortened fingered Bulgarian how easy it is to completely rattle Trump and get in his head for decades.

I hear if you splash water on him he melts.

How is the DNC this slow and clueless?

You're telling me that we could have been rid of him years ago if these dummies had just been parroting all of us making fun of him on social media?

How are these giant conventions with billions and billions behind them so dumb?

I've been saying this for years. Trump is a LOSER, both literally and figuratively. His businesses hemorrhage money, he has lost in two presidential elections so far and in the one he won, he lost the popular vote, which is practically unheard of for a Republican nominee. He wears lifts in his shoes to fix his weird posture that he got from a life of physical inactivity, he sprays himself in orange to look like some bizarre version of tan to cover up his hideous pasty skin. His hair has always been bizarre. He is a born loser, who only "succeeded" because he was literally born rich and has skated on his daddy's money ever since.

Call him what he is: a sad, ugly, weird little loser who people only tolerate in hopes they might pick up a few hundred dollar bills after he's done wiping his ass with them.

I mean, we already knew the entire reason he ran in the first place was because Obama made a joke about him publicly at a political dinner.

I could have told them that 10 damn years ago. Clearly these politicians were never bullied as kids.

Non-idiots have been literally saying this for 13 years.

Trump doesn't know how to handle people laughing at him because he's never had anyone laugh with him.

I feel like there's an old school, ancient parable about laughing at the monster to make it go away that I'm trying to remember

Maybe it's hindsight being 20/20 but, it seems so obvious ridicule would hurt a narcissist

Um. Millinneals and zoomers figured this out the first time around, but they were too busy vote shaming us and squawking about emails to listen.

Crybaby bitch.

"Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Don?"

"Stop calling me that!"

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"When they go low, we go high! Ah, that brilliant political strategy that worked so well for the Democrats in 2016!" - Ronny Chieng

They don't even have to ridicule him. All they have to do is take every single thing he has ever boasted about and one-up him. That's it. Get someone better at golf that Trump to play Mar-A-Lago and beat Trumps score. Get that person speaking at Harris's rallies and talk shit about the course and how they got the best score ever recorded there. Never even mention Trump by name but rest assured he'll hear about it and freak out.

That was no secret. He is acutely insecure and copes by keeping himself wrapped in a shell of mental gymnastics and denial about all of his shortcomings and inadequacies as a political leader and a grown adult instead of working at correcting them. Insecure people hate to have their insecurities exposed and mocked.

don't forget to ridicule 3rd party voting too

It would be nice if it didn't take all this time to go on the offensive lol. Dems always let the GOP position themselves as rational no matter what.

but we've been doing that since 2016

Why are they a month late? I feel like it has been a thousand years since we learned that calling the chuds "weird" was the magic bullet.

As if it wasn’t the natural response

We've known this all along, but these are Democrats we're talking about, so they have to try all the overcomplicated ineffective shit first.

Mockery is a bad thing except maybe against actual totalitarian dictators (but then maybe their danger should be shown honestly, not mocked). Mocking people overrides rational arguments.

Also they mock whole nations when those are under threat. A lot of Nazi propaganda was mockery. A lot of Azeri propaganda is mockery of Armenians (when it's Azeri-bought Russian and Ukrainian media, direct Azeri propaganda is more about threats and gloating than mockery).

A two-edged sword. In a situation where Trump can't win an election, maybe they shouldn't use such poisonous means.

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They still haven't figured it out, ridicule still keeps his name in the news which feeds his ego. The best way to fight narcissists is to STOP talking about them. But to Democrats he's a boogeyman gold mine that helps keep the duopoly in power.