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We know Trump is weird – it’s time for the Democrats to get creative with the insults | Catherine Bennett

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Weird is practically, in ascribing individuality to the targeted person, a compliment.

But vagueness about the exact offensiveness of weird is probably one reason this demi-slur is currently considered, by senior Democrats and a host of US commentators, to be the perfect, supremely effective response to the much cruder attacks on Kamala Harris .

The objection that it is culpably unserious may be less of a risk to this project than its assumption that significant numbers of people whose votes are vital to Harris will find Republican weirdness as hilarious as do X habitués, sympathetic media and supporters capable of defining “brat’s”.