Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates have leaned heavily into attacking former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, as “weird.” In doing so, they are striking at them in a way that truly hurts strongman figures, wrote authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat for MSNBC. “It’s the summer of weird Republicans,” she wrote. “GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly mentions Hannibal Lecter at his rallies, speaking about the fictional cannibal as though he were a real person. ‘He’s a lovely man. He’d love to have you for dinner,’ must be one of the stra…