This was all because Donald amygdala hijacked Hillary:
Even the Morning Joe hosts, who openly hate Donald Trump, said his performance last night was “epic” and “rocked the political world.”
“Joe Scarborough: I think there were a couple of things people in the press did not want to admit but it was plainly evident watching it on TV last night. Number one, it was Donald Trump’s most effective debate performance to date. There’s not a close second. There’s not a close second. Secondly, despite the fact she had an unprecedented cheering section in the media, the fact is for somebody who was watching, and people will see this as they go back and watch today, or of they see parts in a week from now or a month from now, Hillary Clinton was on defense most of the night. She seemed unsure of herself most of the night… Donald Trump, who has made the Republican Party members’ lives a living and breathing hells for the past year-and-a-half, turned it up to 11… And all of those people who jumped ship were looking at their TV last night and about halfway through the debate were saying, “Oh shoot.”… This is the political reality, that for the Republican base, Donald Trump delivered the political attack against the Clinton machine that the Republican base and middle America have been waiting for for years now…
Mika Brzezinsk: And no Republican could have done what he did last night. It was epic. It was vintage Trump. He produced a daylong show that rocked the political world.
There were two ways Donald could have debated. He could have stuck to facts, been respectful, and tried to be positive. As he did that Hillary would have out-grouped him, denigrated him, demeaned him, and made him look weak and stupid. As she did that, sans any opposition, she would have seen her amygdala relax with each unanswered attack. Her brain would have worked better. Her smile would have appeared more genuine. Her manner would have appeared relaxed and unstrained, which would have led the crowd to view everything she said as true. The crowd would have overwhelmingly seen Donald as weak, and Hillary as dominant and honest, and he would have lost.
Instead he amygdala hijacked her early on. Under the stress, her amygdala was overloaded and her cognitive ability deteriorated to the point she couldn’t even say the word “fact.” Her foundational facial expression was amazingly pained and angry. This made the smile she laid over it seem phony and forced. She became anxious and uneasy as she spoke, which people interpreted as stress due to dishonesty. As that happened, Donald demeaned her, humiliated her, and made her appear weak and ineffectual. Every criticism stuck twice as well because of her visibly unsettled state.
This left the debate between a dominant Donald and a weak, confused, dishonest, untrustworthy Hillary.
Donald is political Darwinian Selection in action, and the next iteration of the Conservative politician
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