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But, he continued: “I do seem to do very well with other segments.” His standing with Hispanics, Jewish voters and white men had improved, he said: “White males have gone through the roof.” It’s not only the left that plays identity politics; Trump is consciously playing identity politics, divisively, destructively, calculatedly.
“It’s not surprising that a misogynist would care more about the opinion of men than women,” remarks Jankowicz.
But the Democrats, too, can play the political-industrial abuse complex for advantage. An online troll recently fabricated a supposed confession by Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, that he’d had a sexual experience with a couch.
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Harris’ freshly appointed vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz, this week told a rally that he was keen to debate Vance: “That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.” When the crowd reacted, he played it up: “You see what I did there?”
He was forgetting Michelle Obama’s adage that “when they go low, we go high”. It’s hard to go high in a system where it seems everyone is slipping into the mire.
Peter Hartcher is political editor.
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