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So...no...I disagree strongly with this analysis.
Yes...for reasonable people...Kamala slaughtered Trump.
But that's not what his base cares about. They're the dregs of society that get off on WWF and whatever MTV is these days. He yelled more, he made sensational completely bullshit off the cuff lies, and he rolled over the moderators like a Karen going after the manager.
His base loved it. I think his message of fear, hate and bullshit was compelling (if you still read at a 6th grade level like the majority of Americans).
Yes...reasonable people know Kamala is a better candidate.
Do you really believe someone who is still undecided going into last night's debate is a reasonable person?
Thank you!
I thought I was crazy looking at all these posts... You have to watch this as someone who knows next to nothing about politics. In that frame, Trump seemed wayyyyy stronger than Harris. I was actually really disappointed at so many opportunities she passed up to lay down facts in favor of jumping on talking points... Trump kept spitting out "data" (lies, but the people who don't pay much attention don't know that) and so he appeared more knowledgeable than her, she just kept trying to attack him instead of actually responding to things... Hell, why did we keep the tarrifs? Why not just answer that for us?
One bit that drove me up the wall was when he went on about all the court cases that he "won" and had dismissed... For fucks sake Kamala that's the perfect opportunity to discuss the heritage foundation and the corruption of the courts! Goddamn "judge" Cannon was the piece of shit doing Trump's bidding and tossing these cases... That's a perfect example to provide to the people as to why court reform is important and she could have created a distinction between them, but no she goes back to a talking point that I can't even remember what it was...
So let's say she corrects him on a lie. Then what? Correct the next one? The one after that? The one after that? Trump had more lies than Kamala had time.
Responding to lie after lie after lie just lets him control the conversation. What she did was the best option available.