There was a brief moment in 2017 after the initial fallout of the Trump win where NYU commissioned a performance of a real debate between Trump and Clinton but they switched the genders of the participants. Same words, and the actors studied their bodies/presentations as well:
For a brief second, a lot of the liberals understood how effective Trump was. They had told themselves that the only factor was sexism, but they realized when the genders were reversed that their own gender perspectives likely blinded them to Trump's assets and Clinton's flaws.
People think I'm crazy, but I don't think a lot of democrats realize just how similar Joe Biden is to Trump both in style and substance because their affinity for the Obama years blinds them, and they can't acknowledge that DJT has become very good at interviews relative to JB.
I made a thread on this going through things 1 by 1, including Biden's first few months of campaigning being a "Return America to Greatness" theme, but now that his mental decline is stacked on top of a filed rape claim this is going to be troublesome. https://twitter.com/mugrimm/status/1141742655380054017?s=20
Corona is a massive electoral black hole, but I think the lib affinity for the Obama years has blinded them to the fact that it's going to be two VERY similar guys on stage to a lot of americans, and one of them will be sharper than the other and Joe's on the losing end of that.
If you got this far and are thinking "Lol, this is dumb, how much better can Trump be?"

I've viewed every public video from Biden in the last year and he has a brain shut down in anything over 5 minutes. Meanwhile here's a Trump townhall you should watch:
Trump announced he was running a week into his term, and has been done TONS of interviews since then, I haven't counted but it's entirely possible he did more his first year than Obama did in 8. It's almost always fox, but as you can see from the townhall they actually grill him.
They're grilling him from the right mostly so their takes are bad, but they are in fact holding his feet to the fire to a degree I haven't seen press grill a presidents agenda. He's done constant rallies for 4 years and learned how to do crowdwork. Performance-wise he's learning.
And before anyone whines about Trump lying: Yes, he's lying in the townhall, and he's lying a lot in it.

So what.

It's about performance and style and he's got it down.
Holy shit some nice online person just DMed me a link to the original performance!
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