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Donald Trump is deeply threatened by Kamala Harris – and desperately flailing | Sidney Blumenthal

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Trump ’s narcissism is his grand strategy. No adviser trying to calibrate him to polls can dislodge it.

Trump believes in the marrow of his bones that his intuition, his sixth sense, is his secret power. He cries that he is the victim, as he is always the victim when he does not get his way. He believes idolatry of his personality is the key to his success.

Trump is on the horns of a dilemma if he is advised that to save himself he must deny himself, writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Losing to Harris would be the extinction of his virility.

Trump 's need to assault Harris is even more intense than it was toward Hillary Clinton , Zelizer says.

Trump started to circulate debasing sexual innuendo about Kamala Harris on 18 August with a retweet of a video of a warped version of Alanis Morissette’s song Ironic to suggest that Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee through oral sex.

Trump 's quandary is that in trying to demean Harris , his old techniques have lost their fascination. Now he perceives himself as the nervous contestant in a beauty pageant.