The absolute savagery of Hillary Clinton's performance tonight has me reconsidering her 2nd debate performance.
1st debate: set up scenery, optics of knowledge and confidence for her, and let him wander around looking foolish and shaky. Approach and shake hands to give initial impression of friendliness/feed into the weakness narrative in Trump's head.
2nd debate: do no harm. Look passive, look quiet. Look like she's resistant but not overly aggressive, maybe she's still recovering from being sick. Let him think he put in enough debate prep to "win". Walk toward Trump at beginning but stop short of actually touching him. She controlled the level of physicality in a debate where the huge takeaway afterward was Trump lurking behind her looking like he's stalking her or about to physically attack her.
3rd debate: crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their campaign managers. Cold, disapproving, critical, cutting responses toward her opponent, yet warm and welcoming when speaking about the American people and inviting them to participate in their country improving, and making things better for their families. Come out onstage, stop before the edge of your podium, wave to the audience, make it clear as day that you have no intention of playing nice. Cancel the pre-debate family greetings - we want nothing more to do with you.
Trump couldn't have approached her - They set it up so carefully and undeniably that he touches women inappropriately and without consent, so he couldn't ignore her body language and go over to her to shake her hand. He was forced to follow her lead. She had him where she wanted him tonight. She had set it up that he thought that he won last time and she didn't really respond to most of his nonsense, so he probably didn't want to prepare and refused to prepare much for this debate. Then. She. Savagely. Ripped. Him. Apart. The shackles were off HER, and she showed all the receipts. She went full Scorpio on him. And this is why you do not fucking push Scorpios. But Geminis can be overconfident and misread situations, assume that they can talk their way out of everything, and set themselves up for utter destruction.
Hillary was Blue Ajah channeling White Ajah channeling Rashima Kerenmosa tonight, and she is probably extremely satisfied that she at last, at the 3rd and last time of direct confrontation, was allowed to sting her opponent, and then leave him to flounder in the Las Vegas desert, slowly dying.
Masterfully done. And that is why you study politics before you get in it. Rage against the machine by your voting base only goes so far. Knowledge and preparation complete the whole.
