I'd call Trump "Courage the Cowardly Dog" but that doesn't fit at all. Courage actually cared for his people and Trump has never cared about anyone but himself.
Courage actually had courage. Doing what you need to do to save/help the people you love, even tho you are so fucking terrified your skeleton screams separately from your flesh.
After the debate ended Tuesday night, Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia posted to X, "You want to know who won? Find out who refuses to do a 2nd debate."
I know some folks are falling all over themselves to fawn over the various Republicans who have the, um, courage to come out against Trump now, but all I can see is a bunch of self-interested rats leaving the sinking ship.
I figure the "I was never really a supporter" will start from both elected officials and your Republican neighbors and family members about 1 day after the election gets called for Kamala.
And if Kamala somehow loses, it will be "I knew he could do it all along."
I gotta hand it to her. She started off like a boring milk toast politician with that first answer, then she gave a debate performance that debate teams will study for years.
This debate will be THE textbook example of how to counter a machine gun barrage of lies and how to get your opponent talking about your issues.
This made me curious so I looked a bit into it. Seems that milquetoast as an insult originates from an old comic character of the same name, and it's at least feasible (and perhaps likely) that said character was named after milk toast.
I think there was just about the right mix of muting the mics and giving him enough rope to hang himself. Harris' campaign supposedly did want the mics unmuted for exactly that reason, but having them muted did let her get her message across to the viewers without constantly being interrupted.
This is great. Harris has him by his tiny balls. Now she can run ads saying that he is afraid to debate her, and if he caves and debates again, she will probably stomp him again.