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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is Trump going to debate if he can’t string a coherent sentence together right now?[/quote]
He never really debated in 2020 or 2016; he more or less made the same garbage points he was making elsewhere. I assume he’ll be shamed into debating Biden once and then in front of a national audience his issues will be visible to those who watch. The Republican among them won’t care.[/quote]

Has anyone ever heard Trump make any cogent statements or substantive policy points?[/quote]
He was cogent back in the 80s, though I don’t remember any points he made (as I child I wasn’t exactly following him). It’s fun to watch people author in what they think he means. They did it in 2016 and they do it now. He does not make sense unless you already have some idea what he’s talking about and even that, soon, will be less possible all the time. [/quote]

You're absolutely right and it's one of the secrets to his popularity in certain quarters.  He says something that is completely incomprehensible, but sounds vaguely racist or otherwise dumb and liberals interpret as racist or dumb.  Then republicans react by interpreting it as not racist/telling it how it is/some brilliant idea or insight.  But really it's neither- it's just something that popped into his dementia addled mind at that particular moment.  [/quote]

Trump is pure id (the instinctive, unrestrained part of the personality). He often says out loud what most of us have learned to put in nicer terms or keep to ourselves. That aspect of him has always been there--it's just that he could cover it up a bit better when he was younger and his brain wasn't as affected by age, lack of sleep, the pressure of multiple trials, and fear. His vocabulary has shrunk significantly (just watch a video of him from the 80s) and his thoughts are markedly more disorganized, but he is still sharp enough to deliver enough insults, trigger words, racist tropes, and shocking statements that resonate with his followers. It's not like most of them are actual spending any time listening to his speeches from beginning to end. They just read the chyrons on TV, headlines in RW rags, or listen to RW media talking heads speaking for him. Apparently that's enough for them. [/quote]

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