"We're all fat," said Trump, last night, in his big — really big — big fat rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.

New Jersey! He came to New Jersey. They capture him in the courtroom 4 days out of the week, and they seem to be hoping he'll barely be able to campaign, but there he was, expanding his scope beyond the battleground states and into one of Biden's supposedly safe states, New Jersey.

I see how the mainstream media has been covering the rally. WaPo has "Trump insults prosecutor at Jersey Shore rally filled with vulgar jabs/The presumptive Republican nominee spoke at a large rally where there were plenty of personal attacks and vulgar expressions from Trump and his supporters." Large? How large? WaPo says "thousands," but Trump was saying 80,000. 

Anyway, I watched the whole thing, and I heard the "vulgar jabs." I just wanted to quote this:

You look at the Afghanistan disaster. You look at the border. You look at the real economy, not the fake economy. Everything they touch turns to what?

The thousands cry out "Shit!" He teasingly chides:

You shouldn't use that kind of language. Look, you can't use the word "shit," okay? 

Then he shifts — without any words of transition — to another word you can't say:

That is like Chris Christie. Does anybody like Chris Christie?

He's in Chris Christie's state. But they don't like their own guy. The crowd boos. Trump continues, and be patient, he will link this back to the topic of words you can't say (which he's going to say):

So, I was in New Hampshire, and he was fighting. Totally unhinged. It's called Trump derangement syndrome. He had a major case. He was there and somebody from the front row said, sir, he's a fat pig... but nobody heard it.... I said, you cannot call Chris Christie a fat pig. You cannot do that. Please, sir, if you call him a fat pig once more, I will have to have you leave the arena. I said, don't worry. I'm only kidding. I said you cannot call him a fat pig because you are not allowed to use the fat word. You can use almost any word but you cannot use the fat word. If you call someone fat, it is career-ending. We're all fat.

Why does he talk like this? We know it's successful for him, but no one else would dare do it. He enfolds the crowd of 80,000 in a kind of familiar intimacy. We can say these forbidden things amongst ourselves. He gets the crowd to say the word, then acts fake-coy about the bad word. There's fun in it, being bad together. There's freedom — a taste of freedom. And it's even okay to be fat. We're all fat.

The fat vote. Get that, why don't you? There's your landslide.

ADDED: A musical accompaniment:

There will come a time when everybody who is lonely will be free to sing and dance and love!
There will come a time when every evil that we know will be an evil that we can rise above!
Who cares if hair is long or short or sprayed or partly grayed?
We know that hair ain't where it's at
There will come a time when you won't even be ashamed if you are fat

AND: There will come a time when you won't even be ashamed if you are a porn actress... or had sex with one.