John Dewey and Reflection on Negative Campaigning

by Leyla Abbasi When Tim Walz first dubbed Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance “weird” and it caught on with voters, Democrats dropped their old line of attack against Donald Trump as being an “existential threat to democracy” like a hot potato. Excitedly, they chimed into the chorus of pointing out what is weird about Donald Trump: his social behavior, his policy proposals, even his lines of attack against Kamala Harris. Overall, these tactics seem to be reminiscent of the other side...