# Should Democrats be raising more actual -\>Hell\<- publicly about Trump, etc

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-democrats-be-raising-more-actual-hell-publicly-about-trump-etc/1017086>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-democrats-be-raising-more-actual-hell-publicly-about-trump-etc/1017086 "2025-04-15T22:32:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-democrats-be-raising-more-actual-hell-publicly-about-trump-etc/1017086/61 "2025-05-06T09:26:41Z")

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> [@Odesio](#):
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> Why not just pull a page from Trump’s book and start referring to him by stupid names and reminding people how terrible he is at everything?

They should, that does seem to work. Recall how calling the Republicans “weird” got traction for a while?

But that got shut down as “impolite” or something; sucking up to the Republicans is more important than winning to the Democratic leadership.

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-democrats-be-raising-more-actual-hell-publicly-about-trump-etc/1017086/62 "2025-05-06T15:03:16Z")

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The problem with “weird” as applied to Republicans is that if you use it too much, it becomes normal.

Or as Hunter S. Thompson once put it, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-democrats-be-raising-more-actual-hell-publicly-about-trump-etc/1017086/63 "2025-05-06T18:40:46Z")

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> [@Tatterdemalion](#):
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> The problem with “weird” as applied to Republicans is that if you use it too much, it becomes normal.

I feel like we’re long past that point. When Rand Paul starts making sense you know you’ve stepped through the looking glass.

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