Some interesting observations from Republicans
In today's NY Post, ultra-Conservative columnist Michael Goodwin wrote:
Yet the bulk of the blame falls on Trump, who came with a clear plan and executed it flawlessly. Unfortunately, it was a very bad plan.
From the get-go, the president was determined to rattle Biden by being a persistent interrupter, rarely letting the former vice president finish two consecutive sentences. On occasion, his interjections were smart, but mostly, they made him look boorish.
Also in the Post, former editor John Podhoretz wrote:
But the simple fact of the matter is that Trump was incredibly unpleasant to watch, and Biden wasn’t.
It was painful and sordid and cringe-inducing, and that was almost entirely Trump’s doing.
(snip)
And face it: If you didn’t love Trump when the evening started and weren’t already a fan of his WWE approach to politics, there had to be at least one moment, maybe two, when you listened to the leader of the Free World and thought, “What a jerk.”
At The National Review, Kevin D.Williamson wrote:
The debate was a remarkable example of the fact that Donald Trump, the most self-serving man in America, doesn’t know how to do himself any favors.
Also from TNR is Jim Geraghty's column:
The debate was bad for Trump... bad for moderator Chris Wallace, bad for the viewers at home, and bad for our system of government. The only people who had a good night were the far-right extremist Proud Boys.
In a year that has been a dumpster fire in so many ways, this debate fit in perfectly.
Here's the rest:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo...ster-fire/
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal:
The benign explanation for the President’s performance is that like other incumbents in their first debates he was overconfident and underprepared. A less benign view is that he grew flustered as the debate went on and lost his cool and whatever focus he had at the start.
He was so scattershot with his answers that he rarely offered a sustained case for his own policies. When Mr. Biden said Mr. Trump had called veterans ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ Mr. Trump didn’t refute it but brought up Hunter Biden.
A last one from Charles Hurt at The Washington Times:
And this is precisely where Mr. Trump failed Tuesday night.
(snip)
But instead of making his case strategically to the millions of people watching on television, Mr. Trump tried to win the room. The room was nearly empty. Half the crowd was stacked against him. And they were wearing masks. Oh, and ordered not to clap or boo.
Yet he flails away talking about Russia and Hunter Biden and rigged elections like he’s whipping up a crowd at a monster rally with Air Force One behind him.
It's fascinating that there is so much criticism of Trump's performance last night coming from the Establishment Right Wing. One senses that Republicans can feel the end of the Trump Era rushing at them.
I take it as an harbinger of significant change.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214169168
In today's NY Post, ultra-Conservative columnist Michael Goodwin wrote:
Yet the bulk of the blame falls on Trump, who came with a clear plan and executed it flawlessly. Unfortunately, it was a very bad plan.
From the get-go, the president was determined to rattle Biden by being a persistent interrupter, rarely letting the former vice president finish two consecutive sentences. On occasion, his interjections were smart, but mostly, they made him look boorish.
Also in the Post, former editor John Podhoretz wrote:
But the simple fact of the matter is that Trump was incredibly unpleasant to watch, and Biden wasn’t.
It was painful and sordid and cringe-inducing, and that was almost entirely Trump’s doing.
(snip)
And face it: If you didn’t love Trump when the evening started and weren’t already a fan of his WWE approach to politics, there had to be at least one moment, maybe two, when you listened to the leader of the Free World and thought, “What a jerk.”
At The National Review, Kevin D.Williamson wrote:
The debate was a remarkable example of the fact that Donald Trump, the most self-serving man in America, doesn’t know how to do himself any favors.
Also from TNR is Jim Geraghty's column:
The debate was bad for Trump... bad for moderator Chris Wallace, bad for the viewers at home, and bad for our system of government. The only people who had a good night were the far-right extremist Proud Boys.
In a year that has been a dumpster fire in so many ways, this debate fit in perfectly.
Here's the rest:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo...ster-fire/
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal:
The benign explanation for the President’s performance is that like other incumbents in their first debates he was overconfident and underprepared. A less benign view is that he grew flustered as the debate went on and lost his cool and whatever focus he had at the start.
He was so scattershot with his answers that he rarely offered a sustained case for his own policies. When Mr. Biden said Mr. Trump had called veterans ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ Mr. Trump didn’t refute it but brought up Hunter Biden.
A last one from Charles Hurt at The Washington Times:
And this is precisely where Mr. Trump failed Tuesday night.
(snip)
But instead of making his case strategically to the millions of people watching on television, Mr. Trump tried to win the room. The room was nearly empty. Half the crowd was stacked against him. And they were wearing masks. Oh, and ordered not to clap or boo.
Yet he flails away talking about Russia and Hunter Biden and rigged elections like he’s whipping up a crowd at a monster rally with Air Force One behind him.
It's fascinating that there is so much criticism of Trump's performance last night coming from the Establishment Right Wing. One senses that Republicans can feel the end of the Trump Era rushing at them.
I take it as an harbinger of significant change.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214169168
