Capitol Hearings: Competing Narratives

[Dill]

(07-29-2021, 01:10 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah well, possibly putting the immediate reactions aside that was also true during two impeachments and in many other instances. It always was facts against shrillness.

I do see a contrast here with the impeachments, though.

Remember, the first one hung on explaining some basics of diplomacy. 

Also, the phone call lent itself to gaslighting, as did some of Trump's comments inciting the insurrection. 

I think that in all these cases, the counter narrative is critical. The first impeachment was more susceptible to that than the second, or the current hearings. 

The goal is to ultimately make this about Trump hate, and a "leftist" effort to destroy Trump's good name and all the good work he has done for the country so he cannot come back n 2024 and finish it. 

Making it about Trump hate requires systematically converting points against Trump and his party into false equivalences, designed first to create "no difference" between Dem and Repubs and then to cast any push for accountability as a double standard--Dems were "against" the police back when and no they are "for" police when it suits them. Biden "supported" Antifa; Harris supported "rioters"; "violence" on "both sides" but more died in the Floyd riots than at the Capitol, etc. Now suddenly Dems want accountability.