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There’s No Such Thing As Winning An Argument with Your Liberal Relatives And Friends
Happy Holidays. The Snowflake Victory Site launched by the GOP is divisive in the extreme.
I know what it’s like to watch a political argument transpire over Thanksgiving Dinner, and see someone have the last word. I know how chilly the air gets after the argument is over. The room gets really quiet and the food grows cold. And then someone (usually a maternal authority) starts another, lighter topic, hoping that the mood for the rest of the evening, the rest of the stay for their guests, can be rescued.
Those kinds of results are not advertised on the new website launched by Trump and the GOP, snowflakevictory.com. I visited the site myself just to see and I have to say, it’s rather unflattering of them to even build such a site. I can just imagine how many people will walk out of their Christmas dinners over the talking points on that site.
The entire site offers the proposition that you can change someone’s mind. And that “victory” over the “liberal loser” will be satisfying to say the least. This idea, that one can read their talking points, memorize them, and then steamroll their liberal friends and relatives while convincing them that Trump is good for the country, that he actually has…