So, which is it?

Using the El Paso terrorist's manifesto, I connected the dots for folks still having trouble doing that.

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— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 4, 2019

Even Humpty-Dumpty knew when he was contradicting himself:

“I can’t think of a time when we’ve seen more of a split screen, though. You’ve got the politically-motivated, craven politicians, many of whom think they should be president, on one side screaming about the President and then you have the President not taking the bait,” [Kellyanne] Conway said during an appearance on “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith. “And just keeping a very low tone and calling for the country to heal, to unify and putting forth concrete proposals on — about mental health, about red flags about background checks.”

But Hemmer pushed back, pointing out that Trump had, in fact, responded just last night to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s blunt criticism of Trump’s rhetoric.

“Well, he’s a counter-puncher,” Conway said in defense.

I would quibble about the characterization of "in defense" in that last sentence, because a more accurate description would be "in direct contradiction of what she just said."  But res ipsa loquitur, so there's that.

Being a "counter-puncher" is, of course, the preferred narrative of the President; it's how he likes to see himself, and to be talked about.  It never seems to occur to him that's the posture of an adolescent who is being called upon to act like an adult, and hasn't the first clue how to do that.