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| DATE | 2016-11-07 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] 'We have three major voter-suppression operations
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Bloomberg Businessweek got unprecedented access to the Trump campaign
control center, the past couple of weeks.
(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go)
Yet neither Trump’s campaign nor the RNC has prioritized registering
and mobilizing the 47 million eligible white voters without college
degrees who are Trump’s most obvious source of new votes, as
FiveThirtyEight analyst David Wasserman noted.
To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy,
which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the
electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. “We have three
major voter suppression operations under way,” says a senior official.
[...]
Yay, _there's_ the way to make a case for your alleged candidate! Try
as hard as possible to convince voters to stay home. But there's also:
Regardless of whether this works or backfires, setting back GOP
efforts to attract women and minorities even further, Trump won’t come
away from the presidential election empty-handed. Although his operation
lags previous campaigns in many areas (its ground game, television ad
buys, money raised from large donors), it’s excelled at one thing:
building an audience. Powered by Project Alamo and data supplied by the
RNC and Cambridge Analytica, his team is spending $70 million a month,
much of it to cultivate a universe of millions of fervent Trump
supporters, many of them reached through Facebook. By Election Day, the
campaign expects to have captured 12 million to 14 million e-mail
addresses and contact information (including credit card numbers) for
2.5 million small-dollar donors, who together will have ponied up almost
$275 million. “I wouldn’t have come aboard, even for Trump, if I hadn’t
known they were building this massive Facebook and data engine,” says
Bannon. “Facebook is what propelled Breitbart to a massive audience. We
know its power.”
Since Trump paid to build this audience with his own campaign funds, he
alone will own it after Nov. 8 and can deploy it to whatever purpose he
chooses.
Basically, a Facebook-linked TV publicity engine designed to give Steve
Bannon's racists and anti-Semites at Breitbart (and Alex Jones's
conspiracy lunatics at Infowars) an ongoing publicity platform, to suck
money from the gullible and remain in the limelight, long after the
current alleged campaign has crashed and burned. It was never about
winning the Presidency; that was just the short-term con. After
tomorrow, the long-term con will take over from that: completing the
task of turning the United States into a country like Pakistan where
citizens can be routinely manipulated by feeding them manufactured
scandals and bullshit conspiracy theories.
The white nationalists appreciate your support, Ruben. They've suddenly
gotten national attention thanks to your guy, and you can now expect to
keep hearing from them, for decades. But hey, you got to rant about how
the First Lady forced Congress to unanimously vote for the DMCA in 1998,
and then followed that up by assassinating Commerce Secretary Ron Brown
for no particular reason, doubtless by ninja'ing into a USAF transport
and making it crash on approach to Dubrovnik, which according to you she
had cleverly relocated from Croatia to Colorado just for the occasion.
I hope it's been worth it for you.
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