# I pit over-the-top Anti-Trump hysteria

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**Created:** [August 5, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735 "2025-08-05T18:11:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/598 "2025-09-03T18:24:22Z")

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> [@Eonwe](#):
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> If I look at the OP through that lens, I’d say that choosing either path will motivate some, and maybe un-motivate others. Neither path is perfect, or guaranteed to get results, and probably both need to be happening at the same time, even though there might be some contradictory arguments between the two. That’s the messy nature of building alliances/coalitions.

On a different thread I made the point that it was like that in the past:

> [@Has Democratic voter turnout basically hit a ceiling and can't go any higher?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-democratic-voter-turnout-basically-hit-a-ceiling-and-cant-go-any-higher/1022410/21):
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> Turns out that the way was not only to go high, but to know also when to take the gloves off… or fart in the general direction of the ones corrupting government and demolishing laws and institutions while appealing at all levels of understanding.
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> [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6d3cl1?start=1914](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6d3cl1?start=1914)
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> (The day the universe changed. Episode 4.Episode 4: A matter of fact: Printing transforms knowledge. James Burke.)
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> > “[Luther’s] techniques came together in the pamphlets, color anti-pope cartoons for the illiterates, German for the locals, Latin for the church men, but in any form the message is clear.. [fart noise]”

> **[https://preview.redd.it/0uos58xwyko81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp...](https://preview.redd.it/0uos58xwyko81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c161d31a55004198492e48e9b2483c925c71880b)**

That cartoon was originally in color, a modern version would be to point what a “shameful Nazi-cosplayer Trump is” cartoon for the less sophisticated, English and Spanish (or other languages) for the locals, Legal and more grounded criticism against the authoritarian for the intellectuals. But in any form, the message is clear.

[![](https://image.cagle.com/180185/750/kamensky1.png) ](https://image.cagle.com/180185/750/kamensky1.png)

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