At great and imminent risk to himself, an anonymous source has provided this writer several seconds of film footage shot at a secret focus-group session conducted 28 October, a mere eight days from the presidential election.
The group in attendance was invited surreptitiously by the Trump campaign, which, just prior to completing the filmed session, had been in something of a panic. Pollsters in its employ were picking up — or so they believed — some rumblings of voter discontent with the Republican nominee's proposed economic plan, specifically his intention to slap higher tariffs on friend and foe alike.
Was electoral unhappiness with Trump's economic idiocy a real thing? Was it, in fact, emerging throughout the electorate, especially among the much-prized 18-25 bloc? Was the discontent factor sizable enough to threaten The Second Coming of America's most blockheaded presidency? Fast intel was in need.
And Team Trump knew just what to do. Stage a focus-group session. Once convened, its leader-organizer would review with those in attendance at least some historical background on the known domestic effects of hefty tariffs imposed by the profoundly unknowing. For what the Trump campaign deeply desired to learn were the answers to two questions:
Was the focus-group leader needlessly, almost insultingly reminding these voters of what is, after all, really basic American history; that time roughly a century ago when some other blockheads raised import duties by an average now proposed by Trump? More important, had these voters connected in their minds the fallout from that buffoonish tariff hike to what would come under a second Trump administration?
Just lay it on 'em, these voters; that's what the campaign wanted done.
And that's what the focus-group leader did — or, rather, began doing, until he realized the pollster's suspicion of emerging electoral unhappiness with Trump's economic idiocy was altogether a phantom; that American voters of '24 could no more connect these two phenomena than they could pass a U.S. citizenship test. And he had the film footage to prove it.
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention pic.twitter.com/Yhxh3ky7on
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) November 26, 2024
"Well, it looks like we're going to win, boys," said campaign senior adviser Susan Wiles after 20 seconds of watching the focus-group film.
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