We cats were alerted to a story today via the Twitter machine: that Benedict Donald is selling Republican candidates and interest groups access to his list of 20 million hard-core supporters' email addresses. Price: $35 per 1,000 addresses, or $700,000 to message the full list.
As political minds sharper than ours have pointed out, this is hardly a bargain. Like everything else Trump does, this move is to benefit himself and no one else. Anybody who buys this list is a chump. Shouldn't Republican candidates across the country already have the MAGA crowd in the bag?
Example: Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is a racist. Why wouldn't he already appeal to Trump's base? In Missouri, Senate nominee Josh Hawley's Democratic opponent is everything Trump's base hates and fears. She's so easy for Hawley to demonize to GOP voters — why would he need help from an email list?
The only answer we can come up with is that Trump has threatened them: Buy my list or I won't come campaign for you.
Are we wrong? We think not. Consider Trump's mobster modus operandi and it makes total sense. Think of a down-in-the-polls Republican like Scott Walker, and it's even more crystal clear. We cats know what's going on here, and it makes us PURR.
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