Donald Trump hopes he can confuse people about Vice President Kamala Harris's intelligence through sheer force of racism and repetition. "She’s lazy as hell," the GOP candidate said during a fundraiser held at his own golf resort in Florida. Trump, who has canceled multiple interviews outside of his own home, due to "exhaustion," falsely claimed Harris has a "reputation" and accused her of being "on drugs." The Associated Press classified this as part of the "overtly racist rhetoric" that has been "fixtures of Trump’s public life." Ironically, the reliance on silly racist stereotypes is a sign of Trump's own laziness, as he can't be bothered to come up with something more original.

Trump is scared of letting ordinary voters see him as he is.

He's also been using one of his most tired insults for Black people and women: "low IQ," which is rooted in his lifelong obsession with the racist pseudo-science of eugenics. As he becomes even more disinhibited with age, Trump has been less capable of wrapping these white supremacist views in terms of plausible deniability, instead raving about his utterly false belief that people from non-European nations have "bad genes."

We were reminded again of why Trump flees from anyone who would dare ask him a real question this week, due to extensive reports from the Atlantic and the New York Times which reiterated Trump's loathing of the American military and his affection for Adolph Hitler and his fantasies of a fascist army. Harris responded Wednesday with a speech asking Americans if they want to put a man in office who admires Hitler but disdains everyday American soldiers tasked with........

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