President Joe Biden won in 2020 largely by promising to a return to normalcy and baseline competency.
In 2024, Democrats are making a similar argument but more forcibly: They’re pointing, laughing and dismissing Trump and his circus as a total freak show to which we can’t return.
“The fascists depend on fear,” as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz put it over the weekend.
They’re strange guys with sick obsessions, as the two-term Democratic governor and former congressman put it on MSNBC last week.
After nearly a decade of being forced to take the host of “The Apprentice” seriously, Democrats are increasingly calling “bulls**t” on the whole charade.
“This whole ‘they’re weird’ argument from the Democrats is dumb [and] juvenile,” Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican billionaire, posted on X.
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