Roy Cohn's 3 rules for a young Trump

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9. The point is not to "rebut."

The point is to constantly bring the focus back to a shared vision of what this nation can be grounded in deeply held values, and above all, a sense of optimism and joy.

It's the "don't think of an elephant" problem. When you repeat any shit they say, you give it power.

Harris did a great job of what Lakoff is talking about early in the campaign. She just wrote off Donald's shit as "same old same old." She treated it as the meaningless crap that it is and stayed laser-focused on her vision.

That has shifted. We're seeing more and more "rebutting" or "exposing" trump. And by so doing, we shift the narrative to his court. He becomes, once again, the powerful strongman that must be defeated. When we attempt to directly engage to defeat, the compelling, shared vision of what we can achieve falls off the radar. We've got everyone thinking of the elephant. What we need to do is give them something else to think about. Our vision.