Boys just wanna have fun
Maybe the way to break Trump is to shrug him off.
The standout moment in Kamala Harris’s first interview as Democratic presidential nominee consisted of a mere seven words: “Same old tired playbook. Next question, please.”
That was her answer when CNN’s Dana Bash brought up Donald Trump’s recent outrageous suggestion that the vice president, who is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican parents, “happened to turn Black” as a matter of political expediency.
Let’s hope Harris continues to shrug off Trump’s racist and misogynist attacks. It’s clearly driving him crazy.
I’m no good at shrugging things off, myself. I prefer to try to hammer them into the ground like a frustrated Bugs Bunny. But if Harris is driving him crazy by yawning in his face, hooray!
Meanwhile, in its efforts to get the former president back on track, Trump’s campaign keeps scheduling policy-focused “messaging” events, at which he is supposed to address issues that swing voters care about, such as the economy. It isn’t working very well. Trump listlessly delivers some lines from the teleprompter, then gets bored and begins recycling the rants from his rallies. He mocks the campaign strategists who want him to stick to the script and threatens to fire them.
Well that’s the thing, isn’t it. He’s never been in it for the policy side. Not really. What truly get him going is the showbiz part, the times where he gets to pretend he’s a brilliant insult comic. The other stuff is just paying his dues so that he can do the fun stuff.
Cutting off Trump’s narcissistic supply sounds like one hell of a good (but difficult) strategy to me, but I’m with you Ophelia, I can’t resist taking issue with things.
Yay indeed, that Harris’s campaign is running strong. It’s welcome good news in the struggle to put Trumpism behind us.
I hope, too, that if the Dems do well this election, it’ll soften their defensive edge enough that they might venture to admit that mistakes were made on the gender front, and roll at least some of it back. Sports and prisons would be a good start. Wishful thinking, perhaps. But this thing’s gotta turn around eventually.
This is assuming he has ever been “on track.” You can’t “return” to somewhere you’ve never been.
One wonders, given his track record, if they were smart enough to arrange payment up front. Given that they’re stupid enough to be working for Trump, I’m guessing “No.”
The funny thing is, these advisors want Trump to stick with ‘issues’, but they do not have any intention of letting him talk about actual policies. So they send him out there to complain about the economy, but don’t give him anything about how they’re going to bring improvements. Instead, it’s simply, “Does your job not pay enough? Prices too high? Blame Joe Bi–I mean, Kamala!”