Jack of Harts

I’ve been going over the debate since it ended, and especially studying the beginning to see how it went so bad. And I’ve come up with an interesting conclusion. Trump did not start the slugfest. Biden did.

Don’t get me wrong. Trump was ready and eager to fight. He had one of the guys who had sabotaged his campaign and his presidency right here on the ropes for one and a half hours. He wanted to beat the guy. And he did. He even called Biden out on what Biden and his former boss did four years ago.

But what turned the debate so quickly? Well. Biden did.

The first two segments went really smooth. Trump said his thing. Biden said his thing. And then Biden decided it was time to start interrupting Trump. Yeah. Watch the debate again. Just the first twenty minutes if you don’t want to go all the way down. You’ll see.

Biden started it. Trump was talking and doing his thing and Biden jumped in and started interrupting him. Several times in fact. And when Trump started returning the favor? That was when Wallace started jumping in to stop him and make sure Biden could talk.

Biden also started the insult train by calling Trump a liar. Multiple times. He called Trump a clown, and told him to “keep yapping.” All in the first twenty minutes. This was long before Biden called him a racist and Putin’s puppy in the last half of the debate. Way before Trump insulted his intelligence.

It makes me wonder if Biden planned to do that all along. To make the debate go so low with insults and attacks that everybody would be disgusted. If so, he succeeded.

Though I think he and liberals in general don’t realize just how angry they make everybody Americans when they brandish insults like that. Americans have seen those insults for decades now, and they no longer carry the weight they use to. In fact, far more often, they are bouncing back on those who use them.

Don’t get me wrong. Trump did not do himself many favors in this debate. And he failed in more than one place to seal the deal. But I think Biden did himself a LOT of damage when he started the insult and interrupt campaign.