It was a Gish gallop, a term coined by my former boss Eugenie Scott for a creationist tactic in debates. And in prepping Bill Nye to debate creationist Ken Ham, we came up with a counterstrategy: do your own Gish gallop back. Force Trump into the same corner.
Bill Nye could pull that off, I guess. But it's challenging to do, since gaslighters have the advantage of not being constrained by facts. The counter Gish gallup requires more care.
I think he could do it. He has the thinks to say, and just spending three minutes reciting all Trump’s crimes (classified files, rape, election/J6, Ukraine impeachment, J6 impeachment, Mueller report, Steele report, pee tape…) would make a strong gallop, and Trump would absolutely spin out.
There's no way Biden's oratory style could effectively pull this off. It's not who he is—that which sets him apart from the awfulness of his rival.
Buttigieg is perhaps the one guy who could respond effectively to falsehood-rich diarrhea.
I say insist on realtime fact-checking or skip the rematch.
What’s so baffling to me is how does his team not know this…it’s the same every time.
They should be easily able to infuriate expose and humiliate Trump.
I wouldn't trust Biden to try and pull off a responding Gish Gallop.
He'd be better off just responding "Wow. That didn't make any sense. [Brief pause] Here's something I'll do as president to make your life better."
You can't engage with Trump's nonsense because it's nonsense.
an alternative strategy, which prevents the gish gallop in the first place, is to follow the lead of dr. john henrik clarke: "i only debate my equals. all others, i teach."
I agree, but considering Dems hate giving back the kind of BS they receive, nothing will happen of the sort and they will resort to simple and ineffective deflecting.
