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Look Out, LA: Unperturbed Pratt Launches The First ‘Shadow Campaign’

Spencer Pratt has done it again.

Everyone not living under a rock the last few months knows the onetime reality star turned politics on its head with his spirited insurgent Republican candidacy in the Los Angeles mayoral โ€œjungleโ€ primary.

The outside-the-envelope element of his effort: the gloriously gobsmacking, galvanizing use of crazily creative and enormously entertaining social media ads โ€” both by Prattโ€™s team and independent influencers. The vignettes leveraged artificial intelligence and Hollywood-level production values to lay bare the devastation and decline delivered by decades of Democratic depravity in the City of the Angels, now beset by devils on every front.

Any sentient reader of these pages has also certainly viewed at least a few of these political paradigm-permuting productions. Still, representative samples can be savored here, here, and especially here.

The upshot: the fire-breathing features uproariously ridiculed the human caricatures cosplaying as government officials in the thoroughly tarnished Golden State — highlighting the horrors of homelessness, hopelessness, filthiness, and lawlessness that is their enduring legacy.

A past that, unfortunately, remains near-certain prologue for Angelenos now that Democrats have pulled off another plain-as-day electoral purloining, this time of the second spot on the fall ballot.

Unlessโ€ฆ

Unless the mighty, massive momentum generated by the Palisade fire victimโ€™s searing, scathing, scorch-earthed effort to demonstrate LAโ€™s death spiral can be maintained.

Unless the snowballing, sharpening scrutiny of Californiaโ€™s cascading corruption and onerous one-party rule occasioned by his elimination โ€“ after his nearest opponent had already conceded โ€“ can be further stepped up.

And unless โ€“ mayhap โ€“ the increasing and intensifying indignation over Republican punting of the imperative of rooting out election fraud finally gets the Uniparty Caucus to move beyond mouthing outrage to mounting action.

How to force all of the above? Well, one way to maintain the momentum of the Pratt campaign, step up the scrutiny of the criminal California political class, and move RINOs to take on the nationwide Democratsโ€™ ongoing Grand Theft Election could just be for the candidate not to take his foot off the gas.

In parliamentary systems, the party that loses an election immediately goes into opposition and forms a shadow government. That opportunity is unfortunately not available to Pratt, since he holds no elective office.

But lo and behold, the poll-vaulting political pioneer has raised the bar again, stating his intention last week not to establish a shadow government — but rather, to carry forth a shadow campaign.

Sneering, โ€œYou think you can get rid of me that easily?โ€ Pratt declared โ€œI got in this to expose this corrupt machine and nothing has changedโ€ฆ. I’m lighting you up every single day, and now I don’t have to worry about offending CNN viewers. I don’t have campaign laws hamstringing me now.โ€

The prospect appears to be a sustained skewering of Californiaโ€™s corrupt clown car leadership, distinguished by the same extraordinary inventiveness and entertainment value.

And redoubled reckoning of their record of wreckage and ruination, characterized by an additional 10,000ยฐ of fiery fury โ€“ and the introduction of a mountain of material from the primary purloining the punks perpetrated, not to mention alleged โ€œrecordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.โ€

So โ€“ and Mr. Pratt, if you or a collaborator is reading this โ€“ do keep the team together. Keep their creative juices flowing. Keep the bar rising and the exquisitely scathing satire coming. Keep the pressure percolating and the piercing perlustrations popping.

But is it possible you could also keep the scope of attack spreading to encompass the target-rich environment of limp-wristed Republican surrenderists to the election fraudsters and their namby-pamby โ€œno evidenceโ€ standard โ€“ ignoring the fact that decades of statistical anomalies and near-impossibilities are evidence in-and-of themselves?

In other words, take the one additional step necessary to snatch the possibility of long-term victory out of short-term stolen defeat?

A nation turns its longing eyes to you โ€“ and a continuation, nay escalation, of the Politics of Ingenuity you have unleashed in the first shadow campaign.

Bob Maistros, a regular contributor to Issues & Insights, is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached atย bob@rpmexecutive.com.


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