He gets headlines. That's how Trump & Cruz went 1-2 in the 2016 GOP primaries despite being non factors in 2012. Get attention through easily demonstrable hypocrisy and easily debunkable lies. Name recognition is the biggest hurdle for a a politician with national ambitions.
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1353753931076292608
It's the global right wing playbook. Social media and 24 hr news have made it more effective than ever before. It was easier to bash Trump's outright fascist bigotry than Scott Walker's old school conservative policies that gutted Wisconsin. Who even remembers Walker?
Even now, CNN etc are regularly having on random insurrectionist members of congress and the anchors grill them looking very indignant and then people indignantly make clips of it viral. Like Trump and birtherism. Win win for them. Lose lose for us and the country.
Like this sanghi prof has posted a sentiment analysis of Modi and Gandhi tweets in 2020. She relies on everyone to rebut her with "Duh! Ruling PM will obviously be posting only positive stuff and the opposition's main guy will say more negative things." She knows. She playing you
It is #FactCheckBait.
Best way to neutralize #FactCheckBait? Just tag it that so others can avoid.
If you must fact check (and some times you have to), do it without using their names or even screenshots. Not even insulting nicknames. Just "a fascist". Don't give them name recognition. Don't do their political groundwork for them.
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