Rich Logis, a former voter for former President Trump, appeared in a video message broadcast to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night to say that the COVID-19 pandemic showed him how Trump was “lying about pretty much everything.”
“I believed Trump,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, we needed leadership, but we were given almost nothing. It was a major betrayal to the country.”
Logis described himself as a “full-fledged member of MAGA” and encouraged fellow voters that there was still time to change their minds about whom to cast a ballot for in November.
Cool, cool. Some moron who fell for Trump’s obvious lies and happened to catch on eventually is broadcast at the DNC.
Who is he supposed to be swaying at the DNC? This seems like stupid feel good crap about how “Trump voters can be swayed with logic and reason” when it is obvious this one person does not represent even a tiny portion of the MAGA voting block who are still all in on Trump.
I’m pretty sure people at the DNC aren’t the actual audience, the cable news crowd is.
Tue MAGA folks aren’t going to be warching the DNC directly, they will be watching edited clips on fox news. So they aren’t going to be swayed.
The undecided folks who might watch aren’t going to be swayed, at best they might think the MAGA crowd is starting to be reasonable.
I don’t see how including this does anything except show that the Dems still haven’t given up on trying to reach out and connect with the supporters of a coup.
Worked out great after the civil war, so let’s keep trying!
This is how communities break out of bad cycles. You show people who changed their minds, and that encourages fence sitters to also change their minds. Then when those people show that they’ve changed their minds, even more follow.
This is used to push groups towards good polices, and also how mobs get out of control.
If the dems ignore the psychology of large groups, then they’ll never get more than a small percentage of the vote.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/09/14/yanss-269-deconstructing-how-minds-change-with-michael-taft/
They don’t need the MAGA vote or appeal to Republicans, they need to energize those who are either apathetic or who need to overcome voter suppression hurdles. Patting themselves on the back by continuing their moderate bipartisan wish fulfillment fantasies that has let the Republicans obstruct them for decades isn’t going to motivate anyone if it hasn’t worked already.
GOtV is a constant. All day every day. But it has its problems.
People who want to bash the Dems for not being progressive enough will either vote Dem or not, but they are less likely to be swayed by a presentation at the DNC than a centrist.