Former President Donald Trump thought he scored a win with his Madison Square Garden rally — then Vice President Kamala Harris put him in his place, wrote former conservative pundit Jonathan Last in a lengthy Threads post.
Trump was already on the defense over the racist optics of one of his rally speakers attacking the island of Puerto Rico, then Harris showed Trump she could beat him at his own game — and that "scared the crap out of him," argued Last.
"Trump was pleased with himself for putting 20,000 people in Madison Square Garden. Harris brought *75,000* people onto the Ellipse," wrote Last — that's a figure larger even than the crowd Trump brought to the Ellipse on Jan. 6, just before the attack on the Capitol.
"Then there were the optics of the event itself. Trump's MSG rally looked like the set was designed by the same person who made the Nobody Beats The Wiz commercials," wrote Last. "Harris looked like the POTUS in a Michael Bay movie come to life."
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Last argued Harris sent a message that likely made Trump furious.
"Everything about the Harris event — from the magic hour lighting, to her suit and hair, to the VP seal, to the thickness of the carpet on the stage and the ghostly White House behind her — sent a two-word message: Power. Strength," wrote Last. "These are the signals that Trump's lizard brain is *always* on alert for. I promise you that he didn't miss them last night."
Last argued Trump holds stock in the "law of the jungle" — and believes that Harris, if she wins, will do the same things to him that he plans to do to her.
That, according to Last, would be to use the full might of the federal government to persecute Trump, even beyond the criminal charges he already faces for the plot to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
Harris, of course, won't do this, wrote Last, and this cuts to the one thing Trump doesn't get.
"It's about the rule of law," wrote Last. "Trump simply can't understand why anyone would adhere to it. So when he sees someone bring out 75k supporters, his lizard brain immediately worries about what that person will do to him if she has more power than he does."