"The Great American Comeback", a New Trump Ad

Politics & Elections
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I just saw a new reelection ad for Trump that was hawking the phrase “The Great American Comeback”.

Doesn’t that phrase tacitly admit that Trump has already jammed the country down the shitter? I mean, if we need a comeback, I guess Trump screwed the fuck up to come back from.

I’m surprised he’s going with this phrasing. Trump’s a perennial fuckup, but he does know how to market stuff.

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Its accurate if it refers to the comeback of Covid and its exponential growth.

3

Not really. He’s going to spin anything as a win. Everyone knew that the shutdown was going to have negative effects on the economy. He’s going to say that his policies and responses allowed us to climb out quicker and stronger than ever - certainly quicker and stronger than a Democrat would have. He’s not, of course, going to have anything to back that up - but he’s never needed to back anything up before, so why start now?

4

Thanks to a disease there really was no way to not have the US and world economy get shredded. We were going to need to comeback no matter who was president. It does not take admitting anything more than that for the slogan to make sense.

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Considering Trump’s handling of the Covid Crisis, along with his imbecilic pronouncements on the issue contradicting his own experts, I wouldn’t put him in charge of any “comebacks”.

6

Which is a different issue than the quote I was addressing.

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I don’t think it had to turn out that way. Look at how South Korea, New Zealand, and Iceland in particular responded to Covid-19. On the other end, Trump’s political twin, Bolsonaro, has done such a terrible job with Brazil’s response that he caught the illness himself. In other words, the more Trump like a country’s leader is, the worse they’ve done with Covid-19.

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Their economies have still been shredded. They still need to make a comeback.

Also that is two countries with no land borders and a third where the only land border does not see a lot of crossings. The US industrial base, on the other hand, is absolutely dependent on daily ground transportation across our land borders. Closing our borders completely would have been as unfeasible for Clinton as it was for Trump IMO. Trudeau has acted like he agrees with me. Essential goods just do not magically appear on shelves or in Amazon’s warehouses.