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Trump’s Bizarre Rant About Kamala’s Blackness Exposes MAGA’s Weakness

As Trump’s eruptions about Kamala Harris’s heritage and crowd sizes grow more unhinged, an analyst explains what Trumpworld’s inability to grasp her appeal says about the MAGA worldview.

Kamala Harris smiles and claps
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Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston, on July 25

Donald Trump’s public statements about Kamala Harris are getting weirder. After Harris had a huge showing at a Georgia rally, he erupted, claiming that “Crazy Kamala Harris” had relied on a concert to draw the crowd. Then, speaking to Black journalists, Trump melted down spectacularly while suggesting that Harris had long disavowed her Black identity. The connecting thread here: The Trump-MAGA worldview doesn’t allow for any real grasp of how Harris is viewed by the American mainstream. We talked to Professor Nicholas Grossman, author of a new piece for The Bulwark about the MAGA right, who explains how these eruptions show that MAGA assumes it has a broad-based appeal that it just doesn’t really have. Listen to this episode here.