Weekend Open Thread

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1. I'm loving the focus on what's right with our country. The glass is more than half full compared to the rest of the world. There is so much to be grateful for in this country. Time to build on our successes intead of dwelling on our griviences.

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2. Exploiting Trump’s greatest weakness, his narcissism, appears to be key to keeping him off balance and off message.

   “Kamala Harris has a résumé,” Crockett concluded. “Donald Trump has a rap sheet.”

   A man with no cause greater than self. This was also the theme from the man Democrats put forward as one of the convention’s final speakers before Harris was introduced: Republican former congressman Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who delivered an emotional denunciation of his Trump-occupied party. “The Republican Party,” he said, “has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself. Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big. He’s a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He’s a perpetrator who can’t stop playing the victim.”

   It was all clearly meant to get under Trump’s skin, which, of course, it did.

   Instead of heeding his advisers’ pleas to stay on message, Trump spent his week mocking Harris’s laugh, calling her “comrade” and a Marxist, alleging that Biden was deposed by Harris in a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president.” 

   But mostly, he felt very sorry for himself. “I didn’t need this. I didn’t have to do this. I didn’t need to get indicted by — any time I fly over a state, they indict you.” The poor dear. “I didn’t need this,” he repeated. “I had a beautiful life.”

   With any luck, the world’s most selfish man will be able to get back to that beautiful life in 74 days.

   As Kamala Harris stays focussed on projecting vision and strength, Tim Walz, like his fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey, can play the happy warrior, putting both Trump and JD “Dud” Vance on the defensive.

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