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Finally, the Democrats have found Trump’s Achilles heel: ridicule him (newrepublic.com)

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Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.

Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.”

If you didn’t know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, Trump has called Kennedy the “dumbest member” of the Kennedy family and a “radical left lunatic.” Kennedy has calledTrump a “terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That was no secret. He is acutely insecure and copes by keeping himself wrapped in a shell of mental gymnastics and denial about all of his shortcomings and inadequacies as a political leader and a grown adult instead of working at correcting them. Insecure people hate to have their insecurities exposed and mocked.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

don't forget to ridicule 3rd party voting too

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It would be nice if it didn't take all this time to go on the offensive lol. Dems always let the GOP position themselves as rational no matter what.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We should be paying far more attention to picking candidates who are able to attack and defend themselves. We focus on their history and what they say about what they're going to do which of course never actually happens not holy their own fault though. We need to pick our candidates more like picking lawyers.

[-] RadicallyBland@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

but we've been doing that since 2016

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why are they a month late? I feel like it has been a thousand years since we learned that calling the chuds "weird" was the magic bullet.

[-] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

As if it wasn’t the natural response

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