Thursday September 12, 2024; 9:17 PM EDT
- Specificity can be made to matter. I read that Harris is using quotations from Tuesday's debate to attack Trump -- using his actual words.#
- Lots of Americans know Trump actually said particular things that are objectionable because we heard him talking during the debate. Done right, we confirm those quotations ourselves, from personal knowledge. That's a powerful way to make political rhetoric.#
- It respects the knowledge and experience of the citizen, and the judgment of the people outside the Beltway. That's a great method and a good sign about Harris that she knows what we know and wants to respect our judgment and tap into our knowledge.#
- About a century ago, an Austrian writer named Karl Kraus said that his job was to condemn the corrupt figures of his day not by saying he disapproved of them or saying that they aren't following a party line. No, he said that his job was to condemn the corrupt figures of his day by putting their words between quotation marks. Also a great method.#