The best reaction to Donald Trump is silence. Simply don't acknowledge his existence. Don't give him what he wants: free media attention for his boorish personal attacks on Republicans and phony "populist" blithering. It's the worst thing you could do to him and the last thing he wants.
But if you're going to respond to a Trump attack, the way Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did so today is the way to do it:
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says Donald Trump is using old Democrat talking points against him when he claims Wisconsin is in terrible shape because of Walker's leadership....
Walker, appearing Monday on Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, countered that his administration turned around a $3.6 billion budget deficit, cut business taxes by $2 billion and lowered property taxes.
"The rainy day fund is 165 times bigger than when we took office. Pensions are funded. The State is better," Walker said.
Cavuto noted that Trump says Wisconsin now has a $2 billion deficit.
"Interesting," Walker said. "Those are the Democrat talking points. That they've stopped saying them because they're wrong."
Untroubled. Unperturbed. "Been there, done that, got the 'I won three Statewide elections in four years in a Democrat State' t-shirt". And pointing out the the Democrat mole is using recycled Democrat propaganda that already failed, as well as what an amateur Trump is that an unpaid Walker volunteer in New Hampshire calls him a "dumb-dumb" and he reflexively has to fire back but is so averse to doing his homework that he grabs the first slur he can hurl at Walk, mindful of how unwise and counterproductive it would be to take personal ballshots at a Tea Party stalwart, and it winds up being Democrat "talking points" that were discredited months ago.
Scott Walker doesn't have to bellow, as Loki did at the Hulk at the end of Avengers I, that Trump is "beneath me"; he already knows it and pays us the credit of expecting us to know it as well. Kind of like how old-school football coaches tell their players not to celebrate in the end zone after touchdowns, but "act like you've been there before and will be there again".
And the best part? He effortlessly shot down Trump's attack without giving him anything to aim at in turn. Because if Trump tries anyway, he'll have to talk about why he - an ostensible "Republican" - keeps regurgitating Democrat anti-Walker lines. And I'm assuming that's someplace Trump doesn't want to go.
Or shouldn't, anyway. He is a rank amateur, after all.
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