27 July 2018 — 1438 mdt

Montana Democratic Party issues edgy internet video to refute
Rosendale’s claim that Tester never works with President Trump

I don’t know whether this two-minute attack video (internet only) by Montana’s Democratic Party will be effective. It makes valid points, using political jujitsu to cudgel Matt Rosendale with his own hyperbole. But it makes those points with a jarring heavy metal throb that I found so annoying that at one point I ripped off my headphones before I suffered a seizure. I’m not in the audience the ad’s targeting.

Apart from rebutting Rosendale — “State Frauditor Matt Rosendale,” to quote the ad; the MDP loves insulting Republicans with nasty nicknames — the ad advances Tester’s argument that there’s no need to elect a real Republican because he’s so good at working with the President. At some point, that argument invites a counter-ad featuring Trump arguing that sure, sometimes Tester agrees with him by accident, but that Rosendale always will agree with him by design. Expect that to happen in mid-September.