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She set a tone at the very start when she walked right into his space to shake his hand and made him almost pull back into himself in response. She was in charge and never stopped being in charge.
Harris also managed what neither Joe Biden nor Hillary Clinton nor any of the 2016 Republicans managed to do which is successfully bait Donald Trump and get under his skin. Within a few minutes Trump was visibly angry and not in a way that empowered him but in a way that made him lose focus, go down rabbit holes and generally go off onto damaging tangents. Spittle anger, not righteous anger, shall we say.
It’s surely a bit of culture too, the american hero, american films portraiting the good, the bad as 100% pure good/bad. Religion being omnipresent. Etc etc.
The stupidity is equal in all countries IMO.
No get off the couch and vote please! Because that seems to be another cultural thing in the USA, to not vote.