Former Trump aide Miles Taylor divulged why a Democratic lawmaker’s attack on President Donald Trump hit so hard.
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The former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security explained how claims that Sen. Jon Ossoff’s attack on the president and his relationship with aide Natalie Harp was a “low-brow” move, Taylor argued in his Substack on Wednesday.
“It’s a scorching hot laser beam,” Taylor wrote. “He took documented reporting of Trump’s corruption (including the secret flights, the ballroom obsession, the golf, the stock trades, the war he’s losing, and the weird stories about his too-adoring personal assistant) and compressed it into one sentence that delivered a hornet sting to the wannabe dictator in the White House.”
What Ossoff did was identify a weak point for Trump, Taylor explained.
“Ossoff has rediscovered the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. And it’s mockery,” Taylor wrote. “Strongmen can handle all the hatred because, weirdly (and this is Trump’s long-standing view), the hatred confirms their power. What they actually have such a hard time with is laughter. When people point and laugh, they cower and quiver. The tactic is as old as time.”
That’s what made Trump — and Republicans — so frustrated.
“Trump understands this instinctively, which is why the briefest, winking mention of ‘Natalie’ in Ossoff’s speech produced a coordinated White House meltdown,” Taylor wrote. “Ossoff found the nerve, and — oh boy — it connected with the whole body of Trump’s corruption. Now, the president is screaming in agony.”
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Taylor exposed why this was so damaging to the Trump administration and what Democrats can learn from Ossoff’s move.
“Ossoff, the supposedly vulnerable incumbent, has been choosing a different path,” Taylor wrote. “While he’s no trained comedian, he’s out there with the swagger of Aristophanes by pointedly naming the enablers, mocking the corrupt, and smiling wryly as Trump and his minions demand apologies.”
“So here’s a lesson for every Democrat who’s tried to do battle with a lowlife president by using high-minded policy papers,” he added. “Fight like Jon Ossoff. You might just find that you’ll actually win.”
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