I thought he did rather well against two hostile moderators and his opponent.
I doubt Harris could do half as well as Trump did if it was at Fox.
Trumps capabilities are certainly there.
I agree that Trump did OK relatively speaking. He projected the angry ogre image fully and throughout. Which his sycophants (including you) seem to really like. He went there to play to that base, and that is exactly what he did. So I am sure his base (including you) ate it up. Unfortunately for Trump, that was not the strategy he should have been chasing, because it was not going to gain him any support from the moderates. And in fact, all that angry bluster and wild hyperbole was far more likely to alienate them, then attract them. Which is exactly what it seems to have done.
But the truth be told, Trump was never capable of doing anything else. Because the truth is that Trump
IS THAT OGRE. He's not just playing one on TV for the audience. It is who he is and it's all he's ever been. And it's all knows how to be.
I was honestly surprised that he showed up for that debate at all, simply because there was no way he was ever going to gain anything from it. But being the stupid ogre that he is, he simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to be what he is. "Ogre gotta be ogre", as they say. And he'd do it again under the same circumstances because that's who he is. He knows nothing of parables or mythical story-telling, so he really believes that the ogre in the story is the big winner. And having grown up in the fur-lined pockets of capitalism, why wouldn't he?