Hoodie
September 27, 2016 at 10:29 am

At first I though Hillary missed some opportunities to put the knife in Trump but, after thinking about it, I thinks she’s acting out the corrida de toros. The key to beating Trump is not debating virtuosity, it’s stamina to dodge the torrent of bullshit he pours out and slowly weakening him in the process. Hillary has persistence in spades and is well suited to take him down.

Last night, she opened several wounds that are going to continue to bleed. She established that Trump is probably not releasing his tax returns because he’s dodged paying federal income taxes. The set up for that was masterful. His near admission will generate tons of speculation, which will hurt him with suburbanites who live off a salary, particularly if the salary is relatively high, like mid level managers, lawyers, doctors, etc. They pay taxes out the ass. She revisited the shitty way he deals with people who trust him to live up to contractual requirements, undermining him with small businesspeople. She ripped off the scab of his bullshit reinvention of the history of birtherism, which will make the “I’m not racist” nice polite republican crowd uncomfortable and reinforce enthusiasm in minority communities. She gave a name to victims of his disgusting misogyny, which reinforces the gender gap.

He’ll spend the rest of the week trying to put bandaids on the wounds she opened last night but, odds are, they’ll get reopened again in the next debate. Hillary’s choice of red was brilliant. She’s taunting the bull in preparation for the estocada.