Imagine if, instead of Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi were debating Kamala Harris—wouldn't Modi sound exactly like Trump? The way Modi speaks, giving the impression that anything is possible if he’s around—claiming he halted a war with Russia to bring back Indian students from Ukraine, or that he served tea to Obama, is friends with Putin, and hosted Xi Jinping on a swing. Similarly, Trump spent his recent TV debate with Kamala Harris boasting of his greatness. He didn’t walk over to shake her hand, didn’t look at her while speaking, and every sentence was filled with "I" and more "I," just as Modi avoids shaking hands with Rahul Gandhi or looking at him while responding, yet promises to pull stars down from the sky to make India a developed nation. It’s the same pattern—grand claims of progress for everyone, while avoiding direct engagement with opponents.
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