Joy derision: Democrats turn Trump’s deadliest weapon against him

‘They know it gets him mad,’ said Molly Jong-Fast. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

In Trump in Exile, her recent book on the former president’s life after losing power, the reporter Meridith McGraw describes how aides to Donald Trump set about destroying Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who threatened to lure Republican voters away.

“One Trump adviser referred to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,” McGraw writes. “Rule number five: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”