Republicans, why do you support Kamala Harris over Donald Trump?
07.06.2025 11:42
Reciting one anecdote against Trump is never enough, nor can we recall eight years at one moment. We herewith submit a catalog of Trump's crimes, torts, character deficits, dishonesty, imperfections, ignorance, vulgarity, and immorality:
Trump’s ability to take advantage of his followers’ ignorance of the Red Mirage, their financial problems, and the impact of COVID-19 was enormous. He convinced them of the Big Lie and repeated the Big Lie often. Choosing the Red Mirage to exploit was the most cynical of tactics because few of his backers (who he calls “basement dwellers” behind their backs) knew what was happening the night of the election. Some of their financial problems were exacerbated by Trump’s mishandling of Covid-19.
“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”
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Trump: "It looks good."
As Kamala Harris said, Trump was fired by 81 million people and had a very difficult time processing that. So, Donald directed a mob led by Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, QAnon, and 3%ers to break into the Capitol, telling them at the end to be tough in an attempt to violate the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. His son said on J6 that they would come looking for folks who were not tough enough. Mo Brooks wore body armor. “And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” President Trump told the crowd. Trump said he would be with them, but he wasn’t. When the trouble started, Trump returned to the White House to relish the show. At the White House, Trump enjoyed the riot at the Capitol until pressed to end the violence.
Trump had the “real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities,” namely Congress on J6.
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Too often, recitation of this provision is interrupted by whataboutism, the Big Lie, impatience, and how great things were under Trump before Covid-19.
When Trump rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy, he told and leveraged together two epic lies: (1) he would pay for his campaign, and (2) he was worth $8,000,000,000 or $10,000,000,000. He did not pay for his campaign, and it turns out he was not worth $8,000,000,000 after he could not post a bond for much less.
Trump’s A-Team total turnover of 92% was also a record.
Trump was at his dumbest when recommending the drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of Covid-19. His repeated assertions that the tariffs he imposed made billions for the federal government revealed stunning ignorance of how the tariffs work. The importers pay the tariffs, not China, and most of the tariff falls on the American consumer. When first considering legal challenges to Biden’s 2020 victory, Trump thought they should go directly to the Supreme Court, per Woodward, which, of course, is not how a litigant can reach the Supreme Court. Immigrants in Ohio allegedly eating dogs and cats shows Trump’s detachment from the facts and ready adoption of unreliable information.
[This answer is only about one-third of my Catalogue of Trump’s Imperfections. If you would like to receive the entire manuscript, please send me your email address through the messaging function on Quora.]
Sexual Predator & Misogynist. Trump has been found legally liable for rape (inserting fingers into E. Jean Carroll's vagina) and defaming his rape victim. This is consistent with the Access Hollywood tape in which he stated he liked to grab pussies. Here is the pertinent transcript from the September 2005 Access Hollywood video & sound recording, released by The Washington Post on Oct. 7, 2016:
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Bush: "It better not be the publicist. No, it's, it's her."
Billy Bush emailed Nancy O’Dell an apology after the publication of the Access Hollywood tape.
Trump’s Type Foreseen by George Washington. We can rely upon George Washington’s Farewell Address to the American People, because it describes the essence of J6 and Trump precisely. George Washington's Farewell Address to the American People (1796) wisely warned us about the Donald J. Trumps of the world:
Trump communicated with the Proud Boys before January 6, 2021, and advised them to “stand by.” Trump’s conspiracy theorists constituted just the type of “small but artful and enterprising minority of the community” George Washington warned us about. His Tweeted invitation to J6 said it would be “wild.” The crowd at the Ellipse had to surrender hundreds of weapons. The crowd closer to the Capitol never went through the magnetometer.
Trump and Bannon fabricated the Big Lie out of whole cloth, a plan formulated before Election Day per Steve Bannon’s recorded statement four (4) days before the election. With millions of votes yet to be counted, Trump falsely claimed victory and massive fraud. Filing many lawsuits to stir things up was part of Bannon’s plan. Bannon went to prison, where he now resides, rather than testify about J6 or take the 5th before the J6 Committee.
Bush: "You gotta get the thumbs up."
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Trump: "Oh nice legs huh."
Donald kept a book of Hitler’s speeches on a bookshelf in his bedroom per his first wife in a Vanity Fair magazine interview. Nazi rhetoric made its way into Trump’s speech. He referred to opponents as “vermin” and said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” One of his staffers posted an old headline about a “unified Reich.” Trump recently said in a speech that if he loses the election, Jews will be to blame. This was at a conference on antisemitism. Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth on this issue since his son-in-law is an Orthodox Jew and his current companion Laura Loomer calls herself a “Feisty Jewess.”
Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
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The believers who showed up on J6 fit the typical profile of those who are easy to con: over half had major financial problems, and all had experienced the massive stressors and uncertainty of Covid-19. MAGA Republicans never explained how the brilliant, scheming Democrats could steal the election without Republican poll watchers knowing or why the vote stealing was only in states with narrow margins and did not affect any other political races than the race for president. Even more ridiculous were people who complained about vote-stealing in states other than their own.
Trump’s intelligence and judgment have been questioned. We ought to consider both sides of that issue. While his knowledge base is clearly inferior due to his lack of reading, he has learned enough to preserve the wealth he inherited. Regarding his self-interest, Trump is cunning and hard-working, sometimes brilliant. On every other topic not related to his immediate self-interest, Trump is, according to his former top Cabinet members, an idiot, moron, juvenile, and childish.
Trump: "Nice seeing you. Terrific. Terrific. You know Billy Bush?"
Trump’s former Secretary of Homeland Security and then Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Trump’s former National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin: All called Trump “an idiot.”
Bush: "Yeah those legs. All I can see is the legs."
Trump has no morals, principles, or ethics. He is morally incapable of complying with the Presidential Oath of Office. Trump is pessimistic about the United States if he is not in power. He whines constantly, plays the victim, repeats alleged grievances, and continually criticizes others. Trump is petty, vindictive, negative, and disparaging, not noble, forgiving, or uplifting. He sent hundreds of insults over Twitter, castigating and heaping scorn on the media, Democrats, Republicans, companies, organizations, celebrities, cities, states, TV shows, and anyone who opposed him or criticized him. Sometimes, he fired people on Twitter. He has a curious habit of accusing others of what he does himself.
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When pressed in the debate to justify the alleged dogs and cats eaten in Springfield, Ohio, what did Trump say? He said he saw it on television! Trump’s reference to immigrants eating dogs and cats shows his lack of knowledge and poor information sources. Wherever he got that information, it was not a reliable source. For all his talk about “fake news,” he appears vulnerable to it. This shows his knowledge base and sources for information are flimsy, untrustworthy, and not filtered through diligent campaign aides. The Woodward Trilogy makes clear The Donald does not often take advice.
In addition to making him far less learned, not reading widely makes him overly dependent upon social media, the quick responsive message, often given without much thought or scrutiny by others. While he does not have a huge base of knowledge upon which to draw, he can respond in record time and to millions. The downside of social media is that the level of his discourse can sink to inaccuracy, pettiness, vulgarity, internet memes, humor created by others, and other communication not filtered through the usual or formal formats.
Trump: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
Zucker: "I'm doing very well thank you. [Addressing Trump] Are you ready to be a soap star?"
But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
I could never forgive Trump for violating the Constitution on January 6, 2021 (“J6”):
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Tim Walz gives powerful straight-talking campaign speeches, also projecting joy while striking precise blows on the opposition's weak points. His opponent went after Haitian immigrants, who were subsequently threatened with violence by anonymous haters. J.D. Vance is now committed to Trump’s worldview, even though he once thought the same way I do regarding Trump.
Trump: "We're ready. Let's go. Make me a soap star."
Trump: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
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Trump: "Maybe it's a different one."
Trump: "Hello, how are you? Hi."
Zucker: "Hi Mr Trump. How are you?"
What’s something you did a lot as a kid that you don’t miss now that you’re an adult?
Multiple voices: "Whoah. Yes. Whoah."
Bush: "Your girl's hot as shit. In the purple."
[As Mr Trump attempts to leave the vehicle he struggles with the door]
Why does a lot of the YouTube community support the MGTOW movement?
Bush: "Yes. The Donald has scored. Whoah my man."
The Big Lie believers were generally ignorant of ballot security, poll watching, voting laws, and the great difficulty of pulling off voter fraud on the scale proposed by the Big Lie.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, volume I, chapter X.
The Big Lie was a baseless conspiracy theory organized into a destructive faction. Research shows that people who believe conspiracy theories without evidence are less educated than those who require evidence. SPLC finds, “The threats to American liberties that Oath Keepers say the federal government is responsible for are in reality a set of baseless conspiracy theories.”
Bush: "Down below, pull the handle."
Trump: "It's always good if you don't fall out of the bus. Like Ford, Gerald Ford, remember?"
His unwillingness to read much is consistent with reports that he paid someone else to take his SAT to be admitted to the Wharton School.
Trump habitually, in the White House and today, repetitiously rambles in his monologues, answers to questions from friendly journalists, statements, and comments. These rambles use the same incidents, facts, grievances, observations, dishonesty, and boasting over and over. If they include something new, the delivery and grievance modes are the same inarticulate all-or-nothing generalizations. These monologues sometimes fail to address the interview question and probably represent some dementia together with narcissism, lack of knowledge of precise details, and perceived victimhood. In addition to their mendacity, these rambles are simplistic. His rallies and speeches are now less popular, which Harris used at the debate to get under Trump’s skin.
“the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;–The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President ...”
Trump’s former Secretary of State Gen. James Mattis: Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader.”
Trump Does Not Read Much. Trump processes information orally. This means he does not gather much information and reveals his ignorance when talking. Trump did not read the reports prepared for him as president. Narcissists are easily bored. He admits to a short attention span and gets much of his information from television. Trump does not read books. Reading books and reports requires sustained attention. Maybe Trump dislikes reading because dyslexia makes it too difficult, or he cannot sustain attention long enough. He is probably a hyperactive dyslexic and a poor reader. He needs reading glasses but is too vain to wear them in public.
Critics from the Trump Administration Cabinet. Bob Woodward’s books and other sources reveal that Trump Administration officials, notably those at the top, spoke very poorly of Trump, as follows:
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
Unknown: "That's huge news there."
[Mr Trump exits the bus and greets actress Arianne Zucker]
The Big Lie erased constitutional concerns in the minds of Trumpists. They seem to think that insurrection to glorify Trump is no vice. That Trump’s attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power was unconstitutional, illegal, unprecedented, based on a lie made from whole cloth, and incredibly stupid does not resonate with Trump’s true believers, who tend not to believe any evidence contrary to Trump. The most basic problem is that his backers will not admit Trump is a dishonest, immoral, unread, idiotic ignoramus with a very short attention span. Only those who worked closely with him in the White House at the highest levels agreed that he was all those things while president. Lindsey Graham confirmed that Trump cannot and will not change.
“All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
His niece Mary reports Trump paid an intelligent student to take his SAT for him, to gain admittance to Wharton. He was not a diligent student, transferred to the Wharton School from Fordham, and had some help from his dad to get into Wharton. Comments about injecting bleach, altering the path of a hurricane with a Sharpie, “a very stable genius,” thinking Frederick Douglass was still alive, windmills causing cancer, “Obamagate,” a repeated fixation about fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter, and Washington’s Continental Army taking over airports are just some of his odd-ball thoughts. Many, many factual statements Trump makes turn out not to be true. His lack of reading and knowledge shows.
Dumb. Trump is dumb and has said dumb things on multiple occasions. For many years, one of his professors at the Wharton School of Finance, Professor William Kelley, repeatedly said:
Too Old & Declining. Trump is too old, too obese, not in good physical shape, wears adult diapers, and eats a poor diet to complete four more years of the presidency. Donald is now the oldest person to receive a nomination for president, 78 years of age. Trump has some cognitive decline, probably dementia, as shown by his speech patterns and errors, memory, age, slurred words, digressions, rambling speeches, limited vocabulary, constant projecting of his faults and mistakes onto others, articulated all-or-none thinking, juxtapositions, bizarre analogies, and comparisons. Trump is limited by simplistic all-or-none thinking since, in his world, things are terrible, disastrous, or fantastic and the best. This can be a sign of dementia. Trump has a significant risk of additional cognitive decline during a second term. Psychiatrists and psychologists already say Donald shows signs of dementia, which runs in his family, according to Trump’s nephew, who sees those signs. Who is the old man now?
Bush: "Hello nice to see you. How are you doing Arianne?"
Bush: "Whatever you want."
For these many top former Cabinet Secretaries to call the president for whom they served an idiot is a historical first. For his political advisor, the inventor of the Big Lie, to say Trump is like an 11-year-old child means that Trump was easily led into the Big Lie. For his 2024 vice-presidential pick to have said this same thing years before confirms the accuracy of that observation. Harris started pounding Trump with these allegations at their debate, and she has plenty of ammunition left.
While in social media, it is too easy for Trump to laugh and forward vulgar and demeaning photographs, cartoons, memes, and screenshots. The recent photo of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris with a superimposed reference to the consequences of blowjobs is just such a wallowing in the gutter. While infrequent and well-targeted use of vulgarity and cuss words catches our attention, a steady diet of juvenile vulgarity should grow old quickly in a presidential race. In the end, tweets, vulgar and humorous memes, rambling speeches, and the same tired vocabulary show that Trump is not a highly educated person and does not listen to a broad or deep range of broadcast content.
Trump: "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married."
Negativity. Trump runs on put-downs, disparagement, anger, white grievance, whining, and negativity. His negative attitude was on full display during the Harris-Trump Debate. Harris delivered surgical attacks based on Trump’s imperfections. Still, Trump used ham-fisted attacks against a category of people, immigrants, and fundamentally dishonest arguments on abortion and immigration when the truth would have served much better. Harris smiled and spoke of a better future, while Trump scowled and warned of disaster, collapse, and nuclear war. Trump was against a border deal, noncommittal about Ukraine winning their war with Russia, and used an authoritarian job reference in Victor Orban. Harris projected joy. Trump pitched unhappiness.
What reasons would compel a conservative Republican to vote for Kamala Harris? Primarily by process of elimination, Kamala Harris is the only worthy and qualified candidate:
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) demonstrated solidarity with the mob on Jan. 6, 2021 ... and then ran for protection from the mob he encouraged with his fist. Bravado to cowardice in the same afternoon.
Bush: "Get out of the way honey. Oh that's good legs. Go ahead."
Steve Bannon: Trump was “like an 11-year-old child.” Bannon wrote that Ivanka Trump was dumb as a brick, and that is why he was fired from the White House.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Simply put, Trump is an ignoramus with many simplistic ideas.
Trump: "Look at you. You are a pussy."
Trump’s former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon: Called Trump a “f*cking moron.” Trump fired Tillerson with a tweet.
Trump meets the definition of a “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled” man George Washington referred to in his Farewell Address to the American People. Trump is a narcissistic and selfish individual who lacks empathy. He is mainly or solely concerned with his status, wealth, and prestige, not the USA’s or its people’s best interests. Trump killed a workable border deal negotiated by a conservative Republican solely because he wanted to preserve this issue for himself at the expense of border security.
“What Trump’s gonna do is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner....He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.... So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm.” – Steve Bannon four days before the 2020 election
Trump and Kushner called some of these folks idiots, after they left the Administration, so the feelings were in many cases mutual. Turnover in the Trump Administration set a record, especially with Cabinet Secretaries in the second and fourth years of his term:
Bush: "Come on shorty."
Trump: "No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."
Unknown: "She used to be great, she's still very beautiful."
Donald has had some interviews by Fox hosts recently. The softball questions and extremely leading questions still resulted in Trump meandering through his standard series of all-or-none observations where he was great, and Biden and by association Harris were terrible. His responses are given like a wind-up toy, very repetitive, without much feeling, and few sharp answers. He tries to scare us with talk of World War Three and the coming disaster only he can avert.
Lying. Trump lies frequently, over 30,000 times in his first term, per Washington Post fact-checkers. There are at least two schools of thought regarding Trump’s propensity to lie frequently. One is that he is a congenital liar, and the other is that he is a regular liar with dementia and cannot remember his previous lies or the facts incorporated in his lies. Trump also lies to boost his campaign, as when he claimed he beat Harris in the debate “by a lot.”
The Big Lie. The Big Lie had, in the words of Washington’s Farewell Address, “the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities.” It was inspired by one directly opposed to democracy: