The Atlantic - How Harris Roped a Dope

[Clash City Rocker]

Something every woman watching the debate probably noticed: Trump could not bring himself to say the name of the serving vice president, his opponent for the presidency. For him, Harris was just a pronoun: a nameless, identity-less “she,” “her,” “you.” It’s said that narcissists cope with ego injury by refusing to acknowledge the existence of the person who inflicted the hurt. If so, that might explain Trump’s behavior. Harris bruised his feelings, and Trump reacted by shutting his eyes and pretending that Harris had no existence of her own independent of President Joe Biden, whose name Trump was somehow able to speak.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/?utm_source=apple_news

[niyad]

1. Misogyny also involved. Paywall.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. He is and always has been a conman pretending and lying to be what he sees in the mirror.

[BlueWavePsych]

3. No paywall ...

Hemmed, harried, and humiliated, Trump lost his footing and his grip. He never got around to making an affirmative case for himself. If any viewer was nostalgic for the early Trump economy before its collapse in his final year in office, that viewer must have been disappointed. If a viewer wanted a conservative policy message, any conservative policy message, that viewer must have been disappointed. When asked whether he had yet developed a health-care plan after a decade in politics, Trump could reply only that he had "concepts of a plan."

Almost from the start, Harris was in control. She had better moments and worse ones, but she was human where Trump was feral. She had warm words for political opponents such as John McCain and Dick Cheney; Trump had warm words for nobody other than Viktor Orban, the Hungarian strongman whom Trump praised for praising Trump. It was an all-points beatdown, and no less a beating because Trump inflicted so much of it on himself.

At a minimum, this display will put an end to the Trump claim that Harris is a witless nonentity unqualified to engage in debate. Harris met Trump face-to-face before tens of millions of witnesses. She dominated and crushed him, using as her principal tools her self-command and her shrewd insight into the ex-president's psychic, moral, and intellectual weaknesses.

Will it matter that Harris so decisively won? How can it not? But it may matter more that Trump so abjectly lost to a competitor for whom he could not utter a syllable of respect.

https://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell/group_discuss/21583/how-harris-roped-a-dope

[RobinA]

4. I'm Not Getting

how this was such a surprisingly awful Trump performance. It was the usual Trump performance. Why do people persist in thinking he is suddenly going to straighten up and fly right, something he has never, not once, done. He called her a Marxist (check), he talked about how her border policy led to gazillions of criminals flooding the country (check), he made the requisite jaw dropper (neighbors eating cats). I mean, what did anyone expect? He performed on cue and I'm sure his followers loved it. It was vintage Trump.

[onetexan]

5. Damn Con was afraid of her, a powerful, intelligent and highly accomplished woman of color, that's why.

And she deftly demonstrated her prosecutorial skills and roped him around the whole length of the debate, fully in control while she even managed to present her policies & plans for the country. All the while keeping perfectly calm, cool & collected. He was a cornered crook at her mercy.