First, let us all bask in the beautiful position you are in of not being up to date on American politics.

mmm. That's nice, I miss this.

Now: The Democrats have taken off running. President Biden withdrawing from the race, the de facto and now official nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris and then her choice of running mate in Minnesota governor Tim Walz have all proven more popular than anticipated, and among all this the Democrats have started calling the Republicans "weird" and also "creepy." And this seems to have struck a nerve on the right.

It seems to have actually punched through that their policies of defunding libraries, shutting down schools, killing doctors, waiting until birth to murder infants, checking children's genitals before allowing them to go to the bathroom and on and on it goes are absolutely not normal.

Calling them "deplorable" or "dangerous" or "a threat" doesn't have the same effect because those sound badass to them. "Look, our enemies are scared of us." A group that is as conformist as the American right can't revel in being called "weird" anywhere near as effectively.

Majority report just did a good take on how they are weird because they don't know how weird they come off with their crazy.

“Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. “These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell,” he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was “not normal.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/arts/tim-walz-trump-weird.html