This TheAtlantic article and
this Republican former House member agree: Biden's address acc--
"Wrong thread."
Nope. Biden's address accomplished what it was supposed to do: bait Trump into being Trump. @
gondrin nailed it, too.
Simply put, Trump heard that someone didn't like him and spent what could have been a coherent speech about the direction of this country and how He Alone Could Fix It and instead made it about how thin his skin is, and how much of a whiney bitch he was.
-- Charles Dent (R-PA, former)
"Why was he even there?"
Backing Dr. Oz.
"...he knows that's a lost cause, right?"
If it wasn't him, it'd be someone else. Maybe Biden intentionally planned for the "Trump is a danger to democracy" speech to be just before his Pennsylvania rally and was designed to sabotage it specifically, as Trump isn't physically travelling much -- he has to buy his ass an extra seat and his ego fills the entire cargo compartment. Poor Kushner has to cling to the wing.
Trump has spent his whole life not just being told how important he is, but also using his wealth and power to crush the people who worked for him and dared to ask to be paid. He's basically a high-level elite in a low-level zone.
Biden is a
tank. There's nothing Trump can throw at him that does any damage, but Biden can focus Trump's attacks on himself while the DPS (with and without search warrants) whittle down that orange health bar of his.
But, there's more.
Here's a question: why doesn't the fish section of your grocery store smell bad? Well, they use ice to keep the fish at a safe temperature. If you smell it, they're spoiling, don't buy it.
Here's a relevant question: why wouldn't this Biden taunting the boss thing work next time? Or the time after that? Or indefinitely? Trump has a long, public history of rising to any perceived challenge to his bigliness, even as the feds walk out of his house with all the top secret information he stole.
Trump is, quite possibly, literally insane. Sociopath, dementia, maybe. Narcisist, definitely. And we all know the definition of insanity, currently displayed by Trump and his big fat Vaas.