Mary L Trump writes:

Americans have known for a while that my uncle has the thinnest skin on the planet. We now know that Vice President Kamala Harris is all the way under it because Donald keeps admitting it.

“I’m very angry at her,” Donald said Thursday. “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks. I don’t have a lot of respect for her. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence, and I think she’ll be a terrible president.”

Donald can’t handle losing, but losing to a Black woman is particularly hard for him to bear. Harris’s campaign team deserves a lot of credit for understanding just how to put pressure on Donald’s very fragile psyche. Their rapid-response and press teams are running an edgy presidential campaign that is unique, as far as I know, in modern American political history. It’s the kind of approach that both highlights and exacerbates Donald’s weaknesses. It also makes it impossible for Donald to stay on message and stay away from the kind of personal attacks that his advisors are desperate for him to drop because they’re endangering his reelection bid.

Donald’s narcissistic injury is so great that he has essentially stopped campaigning in swing states. Multiple reports say that he can’t control his impulses in private. He continues to be furious that he’s no longer running against President Biden. More than anything, he perseverates about crowd sizes—both publicly and privately.

Sensing its advantage, just a few hours before Donald’s pathetic attempt to reclaim the spotlight by holding another staged event, the Harris campaign put out a media advisory, but not just any media advisory:

TODAY: Donald Trump To Ramble Incoherently and Spread Dangerous Lies in Public, but at Different Home. TODAY at 4:30 p.m. — Donald J. Trump, loser of the 2020 election by 7 million votes, will hold another public meltdown in Bedminster, New Jersey.

That’s quality trolling. It’s was also pretty prescient.

For so many years, Democrats have taken the high road (remember “When they go low, we go high?”). Unfortunately, Donald and the Republican Party have gone lower than most people thought possible.

So, we’re not “going high” any more. What the Harris and Walz ticket understands is that the best way to take down a bully with the kind of power Donald Trump has, the kind of unimaginable power he hopes to seize, is to mock him and encourage others to laugh at him. [Continue reading…]