Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Douthat explains the Douhet strategy

Obama doesn’t need these voters to like him, so he can afford to direct his policy pandering elsewhere; he just needs them to dislike his opponent enough to declare a plague on both houses and stay home. Paging AA.

5 comments:

Mr roT said...

I doubt that.

Tecumseh said...

You doubt Douthat's take? Why? I think it's spot on.

Mr roT said...

There’s nothing particularly unusual about this kind of strategy, and Obama would hardly be the first politician to turn disillusionment to his advantage. Still, it says something about how far we’ve come from “hope and change” that the president’s re-election hopes may depend on making a struggling, disaffected and perpetually-disappointed bloc of American voters even more disaffected than ever.
OK, but it's a spot-on truism then.

Mr roT said...

Great title, Tecs. Also, you show admirable restraint in not including the apt term "douchebag." Pardon my French.

Tecumseh said...

Glad to see you finally appreciated my title. Of course, I should give you (partial) credit for it: it was you who told me about Giulio Douhet developing the strategic bombing strategy. First, I had trouble believing an Italian did that, but hey, stranger things happen. Like, a Romanian named Henri Marie inventing the jet engine.