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Some of Democrats’ once-hateable figures are out of the picture. And emerging democratic socialists haven’t made for strong lines of attack nationwide.

Republicans have tried to find a new boogeyman this year as they rail against Democratic socialism and the “radical” left: Zohran Mamdani. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bernie Sanders.

Still more mentioned than all of them, at least in campaign ads: former President Joe Biden.

A POLITICO review of hundreds of ads running in battleground House and Senate races in recent months shows Republicans largely haven’t seized on progressive icons in paid media. Instead, Biden is the Democrat most likely to be mentioned in GOP ads this cycle, coming up across dozens of races.

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    Their real problem is they won. They have the presidency, the house, the Senate, and the supreme court.

    They keep trying to blame people who are clearly nowhere near actually having the authority to do what they claim.

    To this day the best they can try to do is blame Biden for the inflation, years after he is out. They never exactly presented a clear mechanism for how Biden was the cause, and now we have glaringly obvious mechanisms that that squarely are responsible for.

    The problem is they can’t find any credible demon, so now they are shotgunning hoping something will randomly stick.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      They never exactly presented a clear mechanism for how Biden was the cause

      IKR? While he was in office, IRL, some people would be howling at me about gas prices/inflation. “Aren’t you glad you voted for this?” and how “Biden’s policies did this to us”.

      I’d ask them: what policies? And did Russia attacking Ukraine have any impact here? What about the Covid pandemic? Many of them were Covid denialists, so it’d immediately devolve into a whirlwind of idiocy.

      None of them ever had any answer for the supposed policies, other than vague bullshit about pipelines or not doing drill, baby, drill, LOL. One particularly hilarious one for inflation was to talk about stimulus checks. It was hilarious to ask them when those stimulus checks went out…

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Yeah, Biden-era inflation was supply chain shock from onset and recovery from COVID (which I can’t imagine any government doing well), the COVID stimulus (technically on Trump’s watch, but I’m not going to blame that government since it’s hard to say what the better approach would have been if there even were a better approach), avian flu (narrowly on egg prices, but GOP milked the election year avian flu for all it was worth), and Russia’s invasion (which Trump asserted that Putin would have obeyed him and that he could negotiate that away in a day, and Trump proved him wrong).

        Trump-era inflation is ongoing Russian invasion (not Trump’s fault), AI bullshittery (in the ways that would matter, not Trump’s fault), terrorizing laborers (100% Trump’s fault), tarriffs (obviously his fault), and the Iran war (again, totally his fault).