What Happened to Weird?

Weird worked and Harris was up in the polls. Ezra recognized it as a break from previous attempts to scare people away from Trump by invoking the specter of a dictator taking away your rights. Then in late sept or early oct, the campaign seemed to change tact back to the scary Trump approach, eventually with comparisons btwn Trump’s MSG rally and the Nazi rally in 1939. Do you think if they stuck with mockery, it would’ve been a better result? One reason I could see it as having worked better is that mockery is from a position of strength, whereas fear is from a position of weakness. I think median voters generally prefer strength over weakness.