Why would they stop? That's been the most effective attack they've had in a long time! Especially because it's true, and I think the Republicans know it on some level.

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[–] erik@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

Not only did they get rid of it, the guy that was the biggest target of it: JD Vance, was basically treated like an old pal by Tim Walz at the VP debate. Instead of taking Vance's obvious repulsiveness and highlighting it, Walz went into the debate and was basically like "look, he's not Trump so we can be reasonable about things," and that was about the time the party also stopped using "weird" in general. Probably related, but can't say for sure.