Kagro in the Morning - August 24, 2023

<p>Yes, <strong>Greg Dworkin</strong> watched at least some of the debate, not that any of us ever had to.</p> <p>DeSantis’ loss was <a title="" href= "https://news.yahoo.com/poll-desantiss-support-collapses-ahead-of-1st-gop-debate-214353402.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a given</a>, and it seems his leaked strategy to “hammer Ramaswamy” was co-opted by <a title="" href= "https://www.publicnotice.co/p/fox-news-gop-debate-2024-trump-tucker-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">everyone else</a>. And with <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/NavigatorSurvey/status/1694525962606588011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good reason</a>! He’s the candidate Greg says it’ll take you <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/NavigatorSurvey/status/1694549553469325494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mere seconds</a> to come to hate. Which is why Gop goons <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/DemFromCT/status/1694662835542892897" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">swooned</a> for him. (Even as the “normies” <a title="" href= "https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/gops-anti-woke-campaigns-have-voters-hitting-snooze-00112097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">couldn’t get any sicker</a> of the culture war fixations.)</p> <p>Meanwhile, TFG skipped the debate as expected, pretending to be on <a title="" href= "https://www.publicnotice.co/p/fox-news-gop-debate-2024-trump-tucker-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white nationalist “television,”</a> instead. Though it’s <a title="" href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/08/24/trumps-interview-with-tucker-carlson-has-more-than-150-million-views-on-x--heres-why-thats-misleading/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unclear</a> if anyone saw it.</p> <p>Useless or not, there’s <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1694670600990535863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no escaping</a> the <a title="" href="https://fandmpoll.org/poll-release-august-2023/?ref=franklin-marshall-college-poll-newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polls</a>.</p>