"He’s the oldest president ever! It shows! The sooner the White House gets comfortable with that fact, the sooner they can pivot to the question that actually matters: So what?" Right on the f'ing money, Andrew! You know why he walks like an old person? He has arthritis in his back. So do I (aging boomer here). Arthritis has ABSOLUTELY N…
"He’s the oldest president ever! It shows! The sooner the White House gets comfortable with that fact, the sooner they can pivot to the question that actually matters: So what?" Right on the f'ing money, Andrew! You know why he walks like an old person? He has arthritis in his back. So do I (aging boomer here). Arthritis has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your cognitive function.
That's what the Dems should respond with whenever they see these misleading clips, and then specify all of his legislative wins with fact after fact after fact. Boom, boom, boom!
I think the Press Secretary has done a pretty poor job. Is this what she's been told to say? if so, the campaign has also done a pretty poor job. Lifelong Dem here - I just don't understand this.
Respectfully, I don’t think people care about legislative wins. Biden needs to pull a page from Trump’s playbook. Say that they are attacking my age because they hate all the seniors and want to take you out of society.
Republicans have steadily thanks to the Glenn Beck/Charlie Kirk/Barstool Sports types been hostile toward seniors particularly during Covid. While some seniors are concerned about Biden’s age, many of them will be offended by the idea he has to step aside because he’s too old. And that could be people that have up until now voted Republican but can’t recognize the Republican Party they grew up in so like 2020 they will pull the trigger for Joe Biden.
Agree most voters don't care about legislative wins unless they are translated into how the voters are helped by them. That's the Biden campaign's job - to show how those wins helped them. As far as I can tell, they haven't gotten those messages across to the swing state voters, but I'm in a blue state, so how would I know? Can any commenters in swing states let me know???
I completely disagree that Biden should use Trump's playbook. That is NOT who he is. He won in 2020 because he was who he is - experienced, normal. empathetic. The voters would immeditately smell inauthenticity.
I disagree you can appeal to senior Trumpers with a claim that MAGA Rs have been hostile to them because of their age because they are in denial about getting old which is why they hate seeing Biden. They are reminded of themselves. I have two older sisters in their 80s, both lifelong Dems. One hates seeing old Biden, and the other wishes she were younger, before her cardiovasular systems started breaking down. (I've told her I understand her feelings, but that's not gonna happen.)
Trump supporters are motivated by their fear of racial minorities who are going to outdistance them in the meritocracy race. These are mediocre whites, not the best and the brightest who can make it into the elites.
They also fear their conservative religious identities being eclipsed by the secular Left's influence in the culture, which is why they want, authoritarian style, the government to step up to stop the changing cultural norms.
Ageism appeals do not speak to these core fears that Trump and his minions have so expertly exploited through social media which has ruined us as a country.
"He’s the oldest president ever! It shows! The sooner the White House gets comfortable with that fact, the sooner they can pivot to the question that actually matters: So what?" Right on the f'ing money, Andrew! You know why he walks like an old person? He has arthritis in his back. So do I (aging boomer here). Arthritis has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your cognitive function.
That's what the Dems should respond with whenever they see these misleading clips, and then specify all of his legislative wins with fact after fact after fact. Boom, boom, boom!
I think the Press Secretary has done a pretty poor job. Is this what she's been told to say? if so, the campaign has also done a pretty poor job. Lifelong Dem here - I just don't understand this.
Respectfully, I don’t think people care about legislative wins. Biden needs to pull a page from Trump’s playbook. Say that they are attacking my age because they hate all the seniors and want to take you out of society.
Republicans have steadily thanks to the Glenn Beck/Charlie Kirk/Barstool Sports types been hostile toward seniors particularly during Covid. While some seniors are concerned about Biden’s age, many of them will be offended by the idea he has to step aside because he’s too old. And that could be people that have up until now voted Republican but can’t recognize the Republican Party they grew up in so like 2020 they will pull the trigger for Joe Biden.
Agree most voters don't care about legislative wins unless they are translated into how the voters are helped by them. That's the Biden campaign's job - to show how those wins helped them. As far as I can tell, they haven't gotten those messages across to the swing state voters, but I'm in a blue state, so how would I know? Can any commenters in swing states let me know???
I completely disagree that Biden should use Trump's playbook. That is NOT who he is. He won in 2020 because he was who he is - experienced, normal. empathetic. The voters would immeditately smell inauthenticity.
I disagree you can appeal to senior Trumpers with a claim that MAGA Rs have been hostile to them because of their age because they are in denial about getting old which is why they hate seeing Biden. They are reminded of themselves. I have two older sisters in their 80s, both lifelong Dems. One hates seeing old Biden, and the other wishes she were younger, before her cardiovasular systems started breaking down. (I've told her I understand her feelings, but that's not gonna happen.)
Trump supporters are motivated by their fear of racial minorities who are going to outdistance them in the meritocracy race. These are mediocre whites, not the best and the brightest who can make it into the elites.
They also fear their conservative religious identities being eclipsed by the secular Left's influence in the culture, which is why they want, authoritarian style, the government to step up to stop the changing cultural norms.
Ageism appeals do not speak to these core fears that Trump and his minions have so expertly exploited through social media which has ruined us as a country.