Comparison:
But that’s going to be hard because . . . I’ll have to teach a bunch of nice people how to be mean. And that’s going to be like teaching a cat to walk on a leash. It’s not natural to us.
Jaime Harrison, party chair of the Democratic Party 2024, explaining that convincing democratic office holders/seekers and campaign officials to "fight fire with fire" concerning responses to Republican public message misbehavior will be challenging. Cats on leashes, although some felines actually allow their keepers to use them, is still unusual enough to be pressed into quick service as a supple simile. Non-natural behavior indeed!
Context:
She’s [Jaime Harrison, party chair of the Democratic Party 2024] certainly enjoying watching the strategy [matching Republican snark and mean messages with speed and humor], which she believes will be a winning one, play out in real time. ‘When I set out to do this four years ago, I thought: I’m going to fix the entire Democratic Party’s entire campaign strategy,‘ she says. ‘But that’s going to be hard because . . . I’ll have to teach a bunch of nice people how to be mean. And that’s going to be like teaching a cat to walk on a leash. It’s not natural to us. We are factual people. We respond to a factual argument.‘
Citation:
Hannaford, Alex. “How Kamala Harris Became Donald Trump’s Supertroll and Found His Weak Spot.” Independent [UK], 17 Aug. 2024. Web.
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