Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Savages ‘Unhinged, Often Incoherent’ Trump in Brutal Column: ‘Incapable of Completing Thoughts’

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Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy gave Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump no quarter in a brutal column for National Review on Wednesday.

Reviewing Trump’s performance in Tuesday night’s debate with his Democratic counterpart, Vice President Kamala Harris , McCarthy argued that “if you’re obsessing over how bad, how in the tank for Kamala Harris, the two ABC News moderators were, it’s because you don’t want to come to grips with the brute fact that Donald Trump was a disaster last night.”

He continued :

He was unhinged, often incoherent, incapable of completing thoughts and sentences when he had points to make, and led into self-absorbed rabbit-holes — claims that he won the 2020 election, the size of his rallies, whether “migrants” are eating stolen pets — that diverted him from opportunity after opportunity to expose Harris as a radical leftist now pretending to be a pragmatic centrist who suddenly loves her some guns.

McCarthy went on to slam Trump for eschewing his “one job” of staying “on message about Harris’s dizzying renunciations of her positions.”

“Trump couldn’t do it. And yes, that’s largely because he is an undisciplined solipsist so effortlessly drawn into railing about rally attendance when the subject at hand is Harris’s indefensible border record,” wrote McCarthy. “But there’s more to it than that. Trump also couldn’t stick to deconstructing Harris’s “values” bunk because his own values are always negotiable. Because he’s an opportunist with some conservative leanings, rather than a conservative in search of opportunities to advance the cause, Trump often can’t decide whether to deride Harris’s cynical policy shifts or try to get to her left.”

Before reaching the column’s conclusion, McCarthy mocked Trump and his fans for convincing themselves that he had been “a force of nature who annihilated Biden” during their debate in June, submitting that Biden alone was responsible for his implosion and that he even “smacked Trump around” for a good stretch during their face-off.

“The X-factor in the race is: How much of the narrow Obama-era majority Democrats can claw back, after years of steering the country into a ditch,” declared the legal and political commentator. “I’ve assumed all along they’d claw back enough, especially if — with Trump’s self-destructive help — they made the election about him rather than about Biden-Harris.”

He wasn’t the only conservative to give Trump poor marks for his showing. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) described the debate as a “disaster” and Fox News’ Brit Hume chided Trump for taking Harris’s bait “repeatedly.”

“Make no mistake about it: Trump had a bad night,” said Hume.