To attack a narcissist, you need to attack the cracks in the reality they paint for themselves.

It just so happens that as someone who has been an enthusiastic and professional grade debater for 40+ years, Harris also knew exactly how to do this without getting his mud on herself, and she knew to do it just as he was hoping to hit his stride.

It was great to watch. So many politicians from so many walks of life have been completely humiliated by Trump’s ridiculous persona. He’s so inflammatory, so full of lies, and so narcissistic professional politicians have been reduced to flinging his poo back at him. Instead Harris made him wallow in it.

I guess it depends on scale.

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Sic Semper Tyrannis, bitches.

In diplomacy it’s critical to give your allies enough rope to hang themselves.

Yes. This is a careful, calculated, psychological move, just like you said.

It’s very clever. By asking if Trump is weird, the natural response of a human is to check Trump’s actions and traits against your natural biases and expectations based on your ‘in group’, either to evaluate if he’s weird or to try to defend him by building a rebuttal. Unless you hang out with racist billionaire authoritarian narcissists often, he’s going to be very weird to nearly everyone.

And again like you said, it takes the wind out of the most obvious counter to Kamala, her ‘otherness’.

It’s brilliant.

Are you implying he meant that negatively?

I completely agree with you and I hate it. Our political system will advance at the rate politicians croak, since apparently retiring from office has gone out of fashion.

Damn it. I know I would.

Highly doubt he can list 10 of anything, but I have further doubts he knows a single one of these commandments.