As a European, I don't get this. You frame it as a choice between two people: a badass vs a bumbling idiot. Why should it be about the personalities of the candidates and not be a choice between the kind of policies that are being proposed and the ability to reason about them?

While I concede that subjectively, Trump can come across as badass and Harris might have been "phony" at times, when it comes to the policies both sides are defending during debates and even the way they express themselves verbally during debates, Harris comes across to me as someone who has better ideas and can explain them far better.

I think that the difference between politics in Europe vs the US is that the latter is based much more on cult of personality. And sadly that mode of operation is becoming more common here in Europe as well.

I personally don't care for the personal attacks and mud slinging. Let's bring back intelligent debates.