A key GOP insight is that there’s no such thing as “banking” in this regard. Gas prices are a soft target now, so they’re hammering that issue and playing up how winning it is, then if prices fall they’ll move on to the next attack, which they’ll also portray as winning.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1460942902104895494
Meanwhile if gas prices fall, and Republicans drop the issue, no one is going to make them pay any price for inconsistency or lying about who was to blame, and Dems may well not claim credit, because they’ll “bank” on the risk that prices will rise again.
Take it from an actual GOP practitioner. Then imagine how the Trump years might’ve played out if Dems had brought this mindset to a party led by the most despised, plainly corrupt man in America.
https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status/1460967350782644237
It isn’t just that Trump’s disapprovals we’re in the high 50s. His *strong* disapprovals (measuring the people who detested him) were over 50 on their own. The relentless cudgel strategy gets you a majority all by itself, plus whatever margin you add by bringing Trump low.
There’s this mindset that whatever Democrats do, and whatever happens consequently, represent the best of all possible decisions and outcomes.
https://twitter.com/wertwhile/status/1460978703069028353
But I remember Trump presided over catastrophe, lied about it, grifted through it, got hundreds of thousands of people killed, wrecked millions of lives. I can’t prove that beating him by 4 while he increased his vote share, wasn’t the best Dems could do—but I have my suspicions.
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