Theories
- Its literally just because Hillary Clinton sucks so hard and people didnt want to hear that shit from her
- Deplorables is too much of a vocabulary word, weird is a word everyone knows. So deplorable just comes off more elitist, from a woman who is already seen that way. To quote a friend I asked “I think deplorable has a negative connotation that speaks to core personhood, in a way that comes off as both mean spirited and elitist”
- The GOP hadnt gotten unhinged enough yet, so America wasnt ready for a campaign that is dismissive of them and still expected bipartisan respect and shit, but are now because the “weird” shit is so out there all the time
- “Weird” is simply a more effective word to describe the situation at hand
- Deplorables would have worked fine with the young people who can vote now but couldnt in 2008.
- Kamala and especially Walz are better representations of “not weird” than Hillary was a representation of “not deplorable”.
- “Weird” hits them harder, insults them worse, and thus makes them spiral more in a way deplorable didnt
- Deplorable would have worked fine if it wasnt just a one off comment but a sustained campaign message (this one im thinking probably not)
- The Vance effect, he’s just that weird.
- People who are tired of Democrats being respectful like weird a lot
Big heaping helping of number ten for me. It feels like the Dems have finally caught up to 2012 in terms of political rhetoric - maybe enough of the Obama people have eaten shit over the past decade that the party’s functionaries have finally stopped thinking that they’re in an episode of The West Wing.
I’m not a Dem but I would really like it if they went all in on just constantly calling the Republicans exactly the unlikable fascists that they are. One of my biggest disappointments with Kamala is that she is still rolling with Republican rhetoric on the border - fukken drop that shit and tell voters that the Republicans are trying to deport every single person working on every single farm and that that would be bad (see also: Israel’s ongoing genocide is not self defense).