Folks saying that X candidate would wipe the floor with 45 in a presidential debate are ignoring the fact debates won’t matter as seen by the experience of 2016. 45’s babbling incoherence won’t dissuade his voters. Stop pretending things are different.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Yup. He uses nonsense as a power play. Trying to call out “Gotcha! That doesn’t make sense, see??” plays into it because it 1) amplifies & 2) enables him to control the narrative by centering it on the nonsense (& himself as speaker). Anyone debating him needs to account for this
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Becky_Fall
Can not wait to read your think pieces on those debates! You are absolutely correct. Approaching with reason, logic, facts means you win the debate but you don’t win over the people who will vote for him. That identify with his nonsense.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
I think the only good way to counter it is to focus hard on a compelling & affirmative counternarrative rather than getting sucked into the vortex of trying to argue with his incoherence or triumph in pointing out its errors. Tough to do, though, when media lap it up so greedily.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @Becky_Fall ja @DrDadabhoy
Also tough since such focus requires acknowledgement that trying to win over a big chunk of the audience just isn’t strategically worth it, because to really meet them where they‘re at would mean engaging the nonsense as if it’s serious (a totally losing battle)
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @Becky_Fall ja @DrDadabhoy
Anyway as far as I’m concerned, the person who would be best in a debate is a candidate who would stay focused, steal focus, and weave a compelling counternarrative in the face of his violent absurdity, NOT someone who would spar with him, however spectacularly
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Absolutely! They will basically have to use the time to soliloquize rather than engage in a dialogue, which is impossible.
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