Victory! It’s over! It’s carried out! It’s a triumph! Tay Tay has endorsed Kamala Harris for president!
In a put up on Instagram after the controversy, Swift famous:
I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I imagine we are able to accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.
Recreation changer! You already know this isn’t a joke. You would like it was, nevertheless it ain’t.
The talk itself? Ehhhhhh… Nicely, it managed to be joyless, ugly and, what a Trump occasion has hitherto by no means been, uninteresting. Harris gained the factor as a debate, fingers down, no query. Centered, fast response, polished, on level, on the cash.
Trump was at his worst, and by that I imply not ethically however performatively. Trump is now the political equal of the Grateful Lifeless (and appears it). You observe him round for years evaluating 50-minute variations of “Darkish Star”: “Yeah, that one wasn’t as bizarrely crappy as in Akron 1978.”
This actually was one for completionists, his political nous and customary contact collapsing into envy and persecution. Questioning Harris’s racial-cultural heritage was meant to go to her honesty, and that she was making an attempt to be African-American Black, not Caribbean Black. Nevertheless it sounded grotesque and previous South Republican obsessive. Getting side-tracked on unlawful immigrants consuming cats in laneways made him sound — to proceed the counterculture crossover theme — like an R. Crumb cartoon.
His assault in 2016 had been that they have been “bringing in criminals, bringing in rapists”, and so forth, and that the US ought to construct a wall. The wall didn’t get constructed and the wave of individuals crossing the border — as the worldwide financial system intensifies — is now a tsunami, however Trump’s concentrate on petty city myths distracted.
The abortion stuff was equally ugly. However Trump was, in a method, not ineffective. Speaking about nine-month and post-birth abortion was merely what’s required of him by the evangelical proper — the more serious Trump is as a human being, the upper the political value goes — however he managed to keep away from being tagged with a nationwide abortion ban coverage. That’s going to matter to loads of rustbelt and swing state voters, women and men, who would possibly need each Trump and entry to abortion underneath state regulation.
The essential factor Harris didn’t do was demolish Trump on his file with the financial system. That may not have been straightforward both. Trump’s presidency coincided with the final interval of quantitative easing, holding the Western financial system pumped up. Biden’s presidency coincided with COVID’s financial results, and the mandatory finish of quantitative easing as inflation started to ratchet up. Trump will get credit score, Biden will get blame, though his financial measures have been smarter and extra far-reaching in steadily reconstructing the US financial system.
Harris ought to have spent extra time attacking Trump’s file as president — the factories didn’t actually come again as individuals hoped — and suggesting that his present guarantees have been extra fantasy. That may have been a dangerous technique: bombarding Trump with stats, an actual financial lecture’s price. Making the prosecutorial case to the individuals who might vote for Trump that he simply can’t ship, that he’s promoting them a fantasy, that there’s no straightforward highway again to a revived America, however collectively blah blah blah…
The case isn’t made, and the Trump dream lives on. The progressives will invoice and coo about how easy and authoritative Harris is. They nonetheless gained’t get that Trump, whether or not triumphant or indignant and ragged, appeals to individuals by being the anti-Harris. They have been listening, in the event that they have been watching, for a press release of intent on immigration and work, jobs, price of dwelling. They didn’t get it from Harris, they usually bought it from Trump simply by Trump being Trump.
On a 50-50 break up within the polls on widespread vote, and with out change within the polls earlier than November, Donald Trump will lose or win the favored vote, and win within the electoral school.
Cos child he’s a nightmare, dressed like a daydream…
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