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In recent days Donald Trump and MAGA media figures have really ramped up the

attacks on Kamala Harris's laugh, her personality and her temperament.

It's gotten so bad that some Trump allies have

taken the extraordinary step of begging these mega-celebrity types to cease and

desist. Now these attacks are just sleazy and repulsive to their core, but in a sense the fact

that Maga is going here so manically suggests an inability to even entertain and unthinkable possibility.

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