The Republican presidential nominee, who is running against Harris, fails to acknowledge the possibility that voters could oppose him because of his harmful policies, incompetent presidency, efforts to overturn his 2020 reelection defeat, criminal convictions and charges, attacks on our democracy and freedoms and the hatred he spreads with bigoted comments.

It’s certainly not that I’m an asshole hate-monger. It can’t be that.

During the Republican presidential primary campaign, Trump referred to his opponent Nikki Haley, who he appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as “birdbrain.” He has called other people he dislikes “lunatics” and “low-IQ individuals.”

So he appoints stupid people? I trust his judgment!

Attacks Trump has made against those he opposes include calling some “communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country,” “the enemy of people,” “evil” and “traitors.” He has called for some to be imprisoned and even suggested that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now-retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, deserves the death penalty.

That sounds completely normal.