Why Trump wants you to blame little girls

Donald Trump has given Democrats his playbook.

Over the weekend, he demonstrated the exact sort of relentless and impossible-to-ignore approach the opposition should take to defeat the reconciliation bill at the center of his legislative agenda, which is so central that it is basically his whole agenda.

Massive tax cuts disproportionately targeted to the richest “paid for” partly by Medicaid and SNAP cuts would make Trump's plan “the single biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single bill in US history,” according to Bobby Kogan, of the Center for American Progress. 

It also includes mass militarization along with a deportation machine that could fund what can only be called a police state, but let’s get back to Trump and little girls.

This is how you do it

Three times in just days, the president of the United States called out the enemies of America’s prosperity—little girls.

Now, if you’re someone who believes that Trump is rapidly deteriorating or plain nuts, this kind of obsession probably seems to fit your narrative perfectly.

As someone who agrees with Dr. George Lakoff that Trump is, unfortunately, a fatally unscrupulous yet effective salesman, I think he’s on to a few things here that will definitely work with his audience.

1. Misogyny, as always.
   ”Yeah, the fixation on the fucking doll thing is about gender,” Salon’s Amanda Marcotte posted. “It's invoking the misogynist concept of the ‘ungrateful female’ in order to justify a very stupid policy that hurt everyone.”
2. Arming the choir.
   Every step-uncle something to say when those ungrateful twerps blame Great Mr. Trump for screwing up the global supply chains twice in one decade.
   
   Republicans have gotten busy selling each other on the idea of “sacrifice” to frame the pain they now seem eager to pass on to the poorest Americans.
3. Using the compelling rhetoric of class warfare.
   Trump knows how to agitate brains and he knows people are going to pissed at billionaires very soon. And it’s never been difficult to get the masses thinking about the tenderness of the rich oppressors' necks.
   
   So why not turn the sort of rhetoric he knows is coming at the victims of the disaster he’s engineering? Could it work? If fools like me help repeat it until it almost makes sense, it could!

Trump is actually handing Democrats a playbook for how messaging works in 2025 and how to attack the Trump regime’s reconciliation bill (or bills) bumbling through Congress. 

1. You aim fire at your enemies.
   In Trump’s case, femininity. In ours, greedy m-effers.
2. You preach to the choir first.
   If you find a story they will tell for you, you have the chance to persuade people.
3. You use tropes that you know work.
   Like tax those rich buggers who are living like Zeus on Ozempic atop an AI Olympus while you scrounge for dolls.

The exact wording doesn’t matter. However, Trump knows that two things guarantee press coverage: outrageousness and conflict. 

These happen to be two things that terrify elected Democrats for various reasons. But too much is on the line to act like this is 1997 or even 2017. We have to play for keeps.

Well, the billionaires will have 28 kids instead of 30 kids. And that’ll save them cash as my war on immigrants makes au pairs cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.

I don't think a beautiful bald billionaire like Bezos needs another rocket trip for his young girlfriend. Couldn’t he slum it on a private jet or in an Amazon truck, next to the pee jugs?

 All I'm saying is that you don't think a young lady and a 40-year-old girl like the president's daughter needs 37 purses. She could be very happy with two or three or four or five, right?

I’m sure there’s better. It’s not hard to find ways to attack billionaires if you’re willing to do it.

And Democrats better be prepared for class warfare because when we don’t play it, we’re surrendering.

He is telling you the crisis is coming

One thing Donald Trump doesn’t like to do is acknowledge any reality that makes him look bad. He’ll spray tan and put hair plugs in anything that makes him admit he’s a floundering human. So why is he preemptively talking down his own economy?

He knows what the shipping lanes look like. He knows the disappointment and pain coming.

This is an intentional shock, I tell you. He’s trying to frame it to his advantage. 

Don’t think he can? He framed a coup and a theft of nuclear secrets as notches in his belt. And his biggest advantage is that there’s no coherent or consistent attempt to frame him and his policies. At least not since the Jan 6 Committee disbanded.

He knows it’s going to get nasty, fast. Meanwhile, Wall Street is still Will E. Coyote.

It looked down into the abyss that Donald Trump's mad king volatility had created in the economy, began to plummet, and decided never to look down again.

But the crash in America’s financial reality is coming. We know this because Donald Trump keeps telling us to prepare for it... by teaching the little girls a lesson.

Isn’t it time the billionaires pay instead?