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Maybe Trump Knows Something About Talking to Voters that Joe Doesn’t Know.

Mike Weisser
4 min readSep 8, 2023

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I get emails the way my father got 4th-class mail. And just like Dad used to sit there and tirelessly open every envelope and read each letter before tossing the paper aside, so I also now sit in front of my laptop and at least glance at each and every piece of digital mail that I receive.

Yesterday the stack included an email from Truth Social, which I joined when it first went online. Why did I become a member of Trump-o’s own Twitter deal? Because like don Corleone says, keep your friends close but your enemies closer, okay?

But this email, when I opened it, actually made me stop for a couple of moments and read the damn thing. Why? Because it wasn’t an ad to buy some MAGA t-shirt or a request for some dough.

It was a reprint of content that had appeared on Truth Social, a rant from some alt-right asshole about how Obama ruined America by putting together a group of ‘bicoastal rich and subsidized poor’ to replace the Democrat(ic) Party’s concern for the middle class. ‘Bi-coastal rich and subsidized poor’ means blacks and Jews.

There really are people out there who think that way. Some of them even end up like this schmuck teaching at elite institutions like Stanford, which is where this piece of shit has been employed.

Please don’t blame me for beginning to sound like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but when I see a legitimate publishing house like Basic Books (which published one of my…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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