We need to be laughing at JD Vance's stunt, not fearing it. [View all]

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A number of commenters here have reacted with alarm to JD Vance's silly airport stunt, going so far as suggesting that VP Harris should get a restraining order or that her security detail needs to be called on the carpet for letting Vance walk towards her plane. But that is exactly the wrong reaction. The right reaction is to laugh at his stunt, call it silly, belittle him for it. Reacting as if he is a real threat only gives him, and the Trumpists what they want -- a sense that we are afraid of them. The reason that calling the "weird" is so effective is that it strips them of their power. It is the classic way of disarming a bully.

So let's chill out on treating Trump and Vance as actual physical threats to our ticket and laugh at their stunts and name-calling.