This is very much correct. Dems embracing Law and Order Lite is superficially attractive to the rudderless mercenaries running Bidens campaign but is totally incoherent and—like a saluting John Kerry going after Bush for doing jingoism badly—is a weird half measure doomed to fail
Trump’s venality & narcissism has caused 10,000s of excess covid deaths, shut down society & wrecked the economy. Why Biden would center anything else until Nov is beyond me. I’m strategy trolling here but it seems obvious to me playing on republicans home turf is always a loser
“Trump is ACTUALLY the one causing [accept rightwing premise of runaway crime and urban centers on fire here]” is a variation on “Trump is ACTUALLY the one who loves dictators and wants to marry China”, a dum dum gotcha that’s only impressive to soulless Georgetown graduates
Bidens largest ad buy to date is now centering around condemning “rioters & looters”. A dum dum racist trap that will only lead to more, infinitely regressive demands of Official Condemnation that completely distracts from Trumps Covid failures. Not a fan! nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/…
Condemning riots is like condemning melting ice caps rather than climate change & oil companies. Yes people dislike riots & melting ice caps but they are the LOGICAL RESULT of institutional failures & one should direct message to causes of these failures not scolding the symptoms
This is why despite being asked over and over and over again for a decade to condemn riots MLK never took the bait because he knew it was a bullshit bad faith framing and instead would use the opportunity to discuss the social causes of unrest
By reducing “riots and looting” to a moral failing or the product of outside agitator/foreign radical ideologies one necessarily removes the social context and causes and cedes a massive rightwing premise. Thus making subsequent Law & Order But Woke messaging flat and incoherent
