clgoh@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTeamsters President — Who Spoke at RNC — Slams Trump’s Position on Firing Striking Workers: ‘Economic Terrorism’www.mediaite.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1252arrow-down14
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minus-squarerecapitated@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·1 month agoCase in point, is it more impactful to hear a criticism of Trump from a DNC speaker or an RNC speaker? Wtf is the actual complaint here?
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·1 month agoHis presence gives the Republicans standing to claim (however falsely) that they’re the party of working people. I get the argument, but it seems to me that the RNC took advantage of him much more than the other way around.
minus-squarerecapitated@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat may be true, but he also got a different kind of message out to a large variety of viewers that was different from the rest of the convention.
Case in point, is it more impactful to hear a criticism of Trump from a DNC speaker or an RNC speaker? Wtf is the actual complaint here?
His presence gives the Republicans standing to claim (however falsely) that they’re the party of working people.
I get the argument, but it seems to me that the RNC took advantage of him much more than the other way around.
That may be true, but he also got a different kind of message out to a large variety of viewers that was different from the rest of the convention.
Purity at all costs?