This is why I’ve been writing for years that “nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism.” It’s the exact same tactics, just repurposed for other causes. I share the frustration.
It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!
I've done a bit of public speaking, and it seems to me that the Gish gallop is incredibly difficult to deal with. You have to mentally tear yourself out of the discussion to say 'You're full of it.'
But yes, Biden seemed unprepared for it.
This is why we need more peoplewith terrible personalities in politics. I have zero problem doing this, because I have no charisma and don't care what people think of me as a person. Put me up there and I'll make Trump stroke out within half an hour.
It's like that Kendrick/Drake tweet that was going around a bit ago "find your opponent's weak point and maintain message discipline"
Which in Trump's case would be calling him a traitorous, broke loser. Over. And over. And over.
They NEED you to either stay civil and nice or completely lose your shit and start screaming. If you mock them like a playground bully and get real personal they can't take it. Trump is obsessed with being respected. So disrespect him. He's a sad old loser felon who fails at everything and stinks.
He walks out and you just hold your nose. "Drop a load in your drawers there, Stinky?" Totally derailed. Totally. He'd spend a half hour on how he did not shit his pants
YES! Like "did you just fart?" Puerile and childish wins with these creeps every time. I wish Hillary Clinton had done that when he was walking around behind her on stage in 2016
He brings up golf. "Sorry, bro. I'm too busy fucking to golf, but I hear your weird little mushroom dick can't get hard anymore so I bet you have a ton of time"
