The way he finished by pulling back the curtain and revealing -- as is always the case with maga! -- that the accusation was actually a confession, was perfect.

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i keep thinking about him having been a muslim teenager post 9/11 and the shit he's put up with for 25 years... i'd imagine it's hard to rock him

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This is an extremely high-risk approach in a context where everyone is filming and the other guy is actively trying to trip you up! But El-Sayed looks absolutely, completely unfazed - like he was eight moves ahead and saw the poor sucker’s demise written down in the book of fate, no escape

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Yeah, a lot of politicians can give a rhetorically strong answer - what makes this clip so mind-blowing is how he entirely dismantles a hostile questioner by forcing him to elaborate. The closest comparison I’ve ever seen is watching law school profs abjectly humiliate unprepared classmates

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It might be the best town hall answer… ever? And I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a politician disembowel a questioner like that, over and over, interrogating him even! and still look generous, avoiding even a drop of muck

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