Karl Rove's playbook Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on June 22, 2023, 10:45 pm, in reply to "Re: ML ALERT:When Truth Becomes Silence:Glastonbury’s Cancelling Of A Powerful Film About Corbyn"
As the ML Alert, and also the film, points out, several smear tactics were used by the establishment (Corbyn as a Soviet agent etc) and none of them worked before they decided on AS as the one to focus on. I remember reading somewhere that this was a leaf out of the Republican playbook -- it was Karl Rove apparently who said, "Don't go for your opponent's weakest point, go for his strongest." This seems counter-intuitive, yet apparently it worked. And thus someone over here decided to attack Corbyn, a man with an impeccable record on anti-racism, on something he was lauded for and seemingly impregnable. It does seem on the face of it a perverse strategy, yet it proved a winner. How would that work against Starmer? Attacking him for his integrity and decency and charisma?
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