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Kamala Harris Broke Donald TrumpLast night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris did to Donald Trump what Donald Trump had done to Joe Biden: She broke her opponent on a debate stage.I’ve been watching presidential debates since 1976, and I’ve even been peripherally involved in a few. And I’ve never seen a candidate execute a debate strategy as well as Harris did.The night, for Harris supporters, went better than even the most optimistic among them could have hoped. For Trump supporters, it was not just a defeat but a public humiliation, the crushing comeuppance they probably secretly feared might one day arrive but, until now, never quite had.What Harris appeared to understand, better than anyone else who has debated Trump, is that the key to defeating him is to trigger him psychologically. She did it by repeatedly calling him “weak,” mocking him, acting bemused by him, and literally laughing at him. As…

The Dos and Don’ts of Debating Donald TrumpStand your ground, but don’t take the bait. Be prepared, but not scripted. Call him out, but don’t lose your cool. Own your identity, but don’t lead with it.As Kamala Harris gets ready to face Donald Trump in a debate tonight for the first and possibly only time in her abbreviated presidential campaign, Democrats who have advised past nominees have plenty of advice on how she should handle an opponent whose chief political skill is attacking and degrading. Her task, they acknowledged, is tricky: If President Joe Biden’s goal in debating Trump in June was to demonstrate that he was fit to serve another four years in the White House—a test he rather famously failed—Harris enters this matchup needing to clear a much higher bar. She must lay out her vision and convince voters that she is ready to be the commander in…

Donald Trump Is Terminally OnlineDuring last night’s debate, Donald Trump said some strange things, even by his own standards. He praised the Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán (using the antidemocratic term strongman approvingly); lamented that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are “eating the dogs”; and falsely suggested that Kamala Harris wants to do “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” This is not merely the stuff of normal Trumpian discourse. This is the stuff of someone who is merely spending way too much time on the right-wing internet.Trump has long used the internet prolifically. But recently, he has exhibited himself as someone who is not simply on the internet, but as someone who is of the internet. In real life, he speaks in posts emblematic of the terminally online. Orbán is a figure who is dear to much of the online far right for his moves to erode Hungarian democracy…

Donald Trump Brought a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist to a 9/11 Memorial EventAt a somber memorial event held Wednesday at Engine Company 4/Ladder Company 15 fire station in lower Manhattan, former president Donald Trump appeared to bring a special guest: 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. The appearance of Loomer, a far-right social media shit-poster with a long record of bigotry, follows her travel with Trump to Tuesday’s presidential debate between the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris. But her attendance at a 9/11 remembrance event proved especially shocking. Last year, Loomer shared a video to Twitter that claimed the infamous terrorist attack was an “inside job.” Alongside the video, Loomer shared her false belief that the plane hijackings and resulting terrors were merely a ploy to allow the US government to surveil Americans moving forward. “These actions destabilized the Middle East and allowed for the alphabet agencies to begin their…

The reason Donald Trump is lying about Haitian immigrantsMax Rose explains how Donald Trump is setting the stage for his extreme second-term immigration agenda by spreading lies about Ohio’s Haitian immigrants …[TheTopNews] Read More.MSNBC – The Latest | U.S. and World NewsThu, September 12, 20245 hours ago

Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald TrumpIllustrations by Ben HickeyIn the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches with Donald Trump. He was in the early phase of his first campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since. We would hop around his various clubs, buildings, holding rooms, limos, planes, golf carts, and mob scenes, Trump disgorging his usual bluster, slander, flattery, and obvious lies. The diatribes were exhausting and disjointed.But I was struck by one theme that Trump kept pounding on over and over: that he was used to dealing with “brutal, vicious killers”—by which he meant his fellow ruthless operators in showbiz, real estate, casinos, and other big-boy industries. In contrast, he told me, politicians are saps and weaklings.“I will…