Pick Me, I'm White

Every time Donald Trump says Kamala Harris is dumb, stupid, or some other version of that, it's obvious racism and sexism. Anyone who can't tell that is open to his racism and sexism, because it takes no effort to find multiple examples that demonstrate it's not true, and if anything, the opposite is true: that he is in cognitive decline, at a minimum.

Tonight, after Obama's speech in Pittsburgh and Trump's in Detroit, All In With Chris Hayes had political journalist Alexi McCammond on. She said,

His pitch is literally at this point, Pick the white guy over the Black girl. And he's asking people who are the most racist of this country to support him and to actually come out and vote. Because that's who he knows he needs to get out to vote in order to win this election.

It's a fairly succinct version of this year's election reality. I'm glad it has been a short campaign so there is less of it to see, and less time for the message and its reach to get consolidated. Imagine if she had been the candidate for 18 months.

It's an utter head-shaker, because as Trump is fond of saying in many other cases, Harris is "right of central casting" for the role of modern-day president. Sure, she could be a bit taller, but other than that, she hits every note of what a U.S. president (who's a woman) would look like in a movie.

And the idea that she's stupid is just...so clearly not true. He has mentally blocked out the debate, of course.

Everything Trump says is his insecurity speaking, when the opposite is true. Usually he makes accusations of actions and therefore is confessing to acts (they're stealing the election!), but in this case it's an admission of his own intellectual inferiority.