strategy implies that he is capable of changing his behaviour to try and be more appealing. i do not think trump is capable of being any way but how he is, but for some reason, some people (racists), like that. he’s just the right asshole at the right place and time.

The Democrats’ “strategy” has been scolding people not even for voting for Trump, but just not voting for whichever gelatinous pig they coughed up and threw out on the debate stage. I have been seeing this for a decade now. “Vote D or you’re a literal demon nazi fascist misogynist xenophobe loser moron.” No one feels especially enthusiastic about making friends with them or heeding their instructions, so they lose elections, reinforcing these ideas in their tiny minds. It’s a hell of a feedback loop. Whatever, guys. Keep rolling over on command like a well-trained dog, vote for whoever your favorite late-night “comedian” told you to, and continue to wonder why things keep getting worse in four-year increments. They have this coming.

“I don’t need Trump’s appeal expained to me, sweaty.” Yes, you really do.

USian “working class” is actually labour aristocracy / petty bourgeois. Those classes are always the driving force behind the rise of fascism. Case in point: Trump.