nd<\/sup> 2024<\/i><\/p>\nThis is probably the next-to-last piece I\u2019ll write before election day, and believe me, I\u2019m really looking forward to having things to write about other than American politics. For one thing, once the election is settled, I can sit down and consider my Solstice essay. It\u2019ll probably be a doozy this year. Something about addled old farts who use words like \u201cdoozy\u201d, perhaps.<\/p>\n
With the election just three days away, I\u2019m feeling considerable optimism. Trump\u2019s campaign behavior is part of it; he\u2019s acting like he\u2019s already lost, and boy, does he know it. He was supposed to attend last night\u2019s Penn State football game in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, and abruptly canceled that. This is the campaign equivalent of spitting on babies and waving a Soviet flag.<\/p>\n
His rhetoric is getting increasingly unhinged and violent, and he keeps saying things that would be political suicide for any candidate who isn\u2019t a cult leader. As women arise en masse<\/i> to protest the Dobbs decision, he\u2019s prattling on about how he will protect women \u201cwhether they like it or not.\u201d He\u2019s still loudly fantasizing about shooting opponents, particularly former members of his own administration.<\/p>\n
The voting patterns show considerable reason for optimism. It\u2019s startling enough that over 62 million Americans have already cast ballots. (And of that 62 million, less than a dozen were cast by non-Americans, if previous voting patterns hold true). But of that 62 million, 56% were women.<\/p>\n
It reflects a trend of new voter registrations over the past year, where over 55% of registrants were female.<\/p>\n
In an absolute genius move, the Harris campaign ran an ad letting women know that their vote is absolutely secret, and not only do they have no obligation to vote as their husbands demand, but they have the right to lie about how they voted. Apparently Republicans really hate the idea that women can have a secret ballot too, and Newt Gingrich stood up to huff loudly that Harris was encouraging women to lie to their husbands. Newt Gingrich. You remember old Nootie, of course. Played a seminal role in turning the once-proud GOP into mindless obstructionists for corporation, now on his fourth wife, cheated on one wife while she was dying of cancer. Outside of Trump himself, about the last person on Earth to be lecturing women on marital fidelity and lying to their spouses. It\u2019s a bit like being lectured on diplomacy by Triumph the Insult Dog.<\/p>\n
In Pennsylvania, the state whose number one football team Donald just pissed on, new voter registrations ran nearly 3-1 for Democrats, and independents got more new registrations than Republicans.<\/p>\n
The unedited version of the \u201cgrab them by the pussy\u2019 tape from the 2016 election showed up on TikTok, and millions of users too young or too disengaged in 2016 are seeing it for the very first time. Chris Hayes thoughtfully played the entire tape on his MSNBC show last night, and it\u2019s every bit as appalling as the edited excerpts we\u2019d all heard before suggested. I imagine it\u2019s wildfiring through the rest of social media now.<\/p>\n
Two of Trump\u2019s campaign stunts, both on the level of Mike-Dukakis-in-the-tank, backfired. There\u2019s a meme rocketing around social media now that show Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sitting together, laughing their heads off. The captions read [Joe] \u201cI made him drive a garbage truck!\u201d [Kamala] \u201cI made him work at a McDonalds!\u201d I posted a image of Trump in the garbage truck and labeled it \u201cFrom the Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department.\u201d It failed to impress Trump supporters, I\u2019m sorry to say.<\/p>\n
Mainstream media are still playing the silly horserace game, of course. CNN and the NY Times played up a weak jobs report from yesterday as a \u201cdevastating blow\u201d to Harris, apparently unaware of the fact that it normally takes about six months for changes in the economy to seep into the public consciousness, and longer if the economy is doing well and people only know what Fox News tells them. The gain of \u201conly\u201d 22,000 jobs for the month will have absolutely no effect on the vote.<\/p>\n
The plutocrat press is learning that making newspapers into rich man\u2019s toys isn\u2019t working out: the Bezos-owned Washington Post has lost over 300,000 subscribers over their public self-neutering, and the LA Times, with a much smaller circulation, has lost some 50,000.<\/p>\n
Even the Supreme Court, resolutely fascist, has backed away from further opportunities to tamper with the election. They denied cert on several GOP-backed suits following the Virginia case.<\/p>\n
I suspect that a lot of Republicans are not going to vote for Trump, and many will vote for Harris. Millions, perhaps. Enough to seriously tilt the scales. It helps that over 600 Republicans of note, including some 200 from the Trump administration, over 100 retired line officers, and dozens of retired Congressionals, have all come out for Harris, including the Cheneys and Schwarzenegger. Harris has gotten endorsements from such Republican bastions as the Economist and the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important to remember that a lot of the Republican disaffection stems from the fact that Trump himself is an incompetent, addled, vicious and dishonest pig. That may or may not affect their votes down ticket, depending on how closely aligned with Trump the candidates are. Congressional votes may hinge, not on never-Trumpers, but on discouraged voters. And, of course, the millions of women voting to take their rights back. They don\u2019t see old \u201cgrab them by the pussy\u201d as their preferred protector, it seems.<\/p>\n
Finally, a lot of self-identified Christian voters have finally realized that Trump is not a divine test of godliness or whatever the fuck, and are going with the candidate who isn\u2019t a serial adulterer, rapist, con artist, liar and dementia patient. It\u2019s a good look on them.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s too early to be complacent, mind you. Trump will challenge the results and put up a huge fight to try to de-legitimize the vote. He\u2019s already said he would. Just like he did in 2020. So expect a battle.<\/p>\n
But Trump isn\u2019t fighting for you. He\u2019s fighting for himself. And he knows he has everything to lose.<\/p>\n
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