"It is urgently important that Democrats find ways to depict this cartoon villain as more villainous than comic."

"A host of data shows that a crucial slice of the electorate has relatively sunny memories of the Trump years and a vague understanding of the extremist agenda his allies are putting together for a second term. And worse yet... the youngest voters, on whom Democrats are relying for a big 2024 advantage, know little about Trump at all... 'Santiago Mayer, the 22-year-old founder of the Gen Z group Voters of Tomorrow, which has endorsed Biden, told me that his 18-year-old brother and his friends see Trump as more funny than threatening. "They don’t know much about Donald Trump’s agenda, and Donald Trump is an entertaining character," Mayer said. "They are gravitating toward him not because of their political beliefs but out of sheer curiosity."' It is urgently important that Democrats find ways to depict this cartoon villain as more villainous than comic... Perhaps the way for Democrats to thread the needle is to make Trump appear not just scary but also predictably wedded to the worst aspects of his party...."

Writes Ed Kilgore in "The Biden Campaign Has a Trump-Fatigue Problem" (NY Magazine).

The internal quote — "Santiago Mayer... sheer curiosity" — comes from an Atlantic article by Russell Berman called "The Voters Who Don’t Really Know Donald Trump/Many of this year’s first-time voters were too young to remember what Trump was like in office. Biden hopes to show them." Berman's recommendation is to give young people "a well-funded history lesson." Noted.