I agree with all of you and had to turn it off. I'm not giving anymore attention to the bully. Biden will win. Trump caters to his base who loved how he was but they are outnumbered. I won't be tuning into anymore debates. Trump is done.
I think Joy Reid put it best when she said Trump isn't running against Biden, he's running against the election. Thing is, he'll lose against both. Of that I'm certain. What did chill me was his "stand down and stand by" comment to those Proud Boy nut jobs. Not only was it Trump declining to condemn white supremacy, but I saw on Twitter that they (not surprisingly) took it as a call to arms.
posted tonight by Steve Schmidt on Twitter:
"Not since @Schwarzenegger starred in Kindergarten Cop have the American people seen someone lose control of the circus more epically than Chris Wallace. He should have turned the microphone off."
That was not a debate. That was a disgrace. Everything Trump touches dies, and I think we just saw the death of presidential debates. Disgusting.
I think this may have been intentional on Trump's part. He was sabotaging the debate, preventing Biden from speaking his message at every turn, and hogging the microphone himself, so that Trump's heavily indoctrinated base would not have the opportunity to hear what Biden has to say, nor to get to know Biden the man and the leader. Trump wants to control what his base hears and sees on these topics. He would look weak if he said no to a debate, so his solution to this dilemma was sabotage.
I feel like asking all so-called undecideds, what appeals to you the most, his narcissism, his ignorance, his lying or his racism?
Just saw a great quote that seems relevant here:
"Trump allows people to express their racism and bigotry in a way that they haven't been able to in quite a while, and they really love him for that. It's a shocking thing to realize that people love their hatred more than they care about their own actual lives." --Fran Lebowitz
I would add that they love their hatred more than they care about their own families' lives also -- those of their children, elderly parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, spouses.... How awful is that???