Just before posting this, I saw Hannity of Fox say: “Kamala Harris cannot win if America knows who she is”. Ha ha. Right now Donald Trump is showing the entire world who he is, a ridiculously insecure child….The contrast between the happy warriors and the ever cheerful Trump is pure gold. The man is just remarkably stupid!
Trump is floundering because the attention and positive energy generated by Harris and Walz have threatened his ego
www.theguardian.com
As David Frum put it: “There’s an old joke about the fool at the poker table: If you don’t know who it is, it’s you”.
The former president’s interview with Elon Musk was a reminder that overfamiliarity with a candidate can breed contempt.
www.theatlantic.com
“Huge crowds have gathered for her, sizzling with enthusiasm. How did that happen? Through the alchemy of politics, an alchemy that invites people to see themselves in a political champion, that depends heavily on selective availability. A champion who’s too invisible fades from mind, as Biden did during his presidency. Too visible, and the champion can become overdefined, in ways that may alienate reachable voters. This is Trump’s problem. For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively. Whereas Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT-professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the “Will you please shut up?” phase of his political descent.
Meandering, solipsistic, and crushingly boring—the interview was an awful premonition of the rest of Trump’s life should he lose again, in November: wandering the corridors of his clubs, going from table to table, buttonholing the dwindling number of guests, monologuing relentlessly until they squirm away”.