Republicans Are Scrambling To Teach Cognitively Declining Trump Policy Before The Debate

[Bucky]

18. Don't fall in love with the "Cognitively Declining Trump" narrative

Republicans keep fucking themselves with the "feeble old vegetable Biden" fable they tell each other constantly... and that sort of mythological tunnel vision keeps on coming out to bite them in the ass.

Constantly denigrating your opponent till you believe they're incapable of putting up a fight is an amateur's mistake. Arrogance, as Gidget Bobert keeps finding out, always queues up a self inflicted comeuppance.

Trump may be batshit crazy, but please stop telling yourself (and especially quit propagating in Democratic circles the foolish notion) that Trump isn't a wily, malicious sociopath who can play his marks like a fiddle and motivate them to hate, disbelieve objective facts, ignore their own self interests, storm government buildings, and get out to vote. He's learned the art of weaponizing white resentment. He's a one trick pony, but it's a powerful trick.

He's an idiot, but he's still a cornered crafty and dangerous wild animal. Our contempt alone won't be his undoing. We have to fact bomb our neighbors and family members, not ignore his manipulative genius.