Advice to Liberals on Dealing with Donald Trump

Pop quiz: when the big, dumb bully in grade school shouts some asinine insult at you, what do you do? Has it ever been a successful strategy to get huffy? Huffy people look ridiculous, and therefore amusing. Has it ever been an effective strategy to make a reasonable argument about why the asinine insult is way off base? No, you sound like a weakling nerd.

So when liberals start petitions and take out ads in the NY Times and generally get huffy over things Donald Trump says, you’re helping him. He loves that. It makes him look powerful in the eyes of the dummies who listen to him. Can we all just agree that when Donald Trump says some ridiculous, terrible, asinine crap to get liberals riled up, we do the following:

1. Call him an asshat
2. Be cool

Really. I think “asshat” is the solution to the whole Donald Trump problem. Don’t say “America was founded on religious equality” or “He’s not qualified to be president” or really anything. Those are sentences, and sentences are not effective in the kind of primitive power display situations he initiates. It’s not about ideas, it’s about power. Derision and dismissal are good, though. Just say “asshat” and move on. You need to make the bully look ridiculous instead of yourself. This is done through humor. Quick, dismissive humor.