Elizabeth, you said this so well and so optimistically! VP Harris surprised me by being such a competent speaker and campaigner, but she also rather charmed me with her sunny personality and sharp wit combined with dead seriousness about the risks Trump and the rest of the Christian Nationalist Right Wing pose to our country.
Elizabeth, you said this so well and so optimistically! VP Harris surprised me by being such a competent speaker and campaigner, but she also rather charmed me with her sunny personality and sharp wit combined with dead seriousness about the risks Trump and the rest of the Christian Nationalist Right Wing pose to our country.
And it hasn’t hurt her that Trump’s vision of America as a hateful, dark place with soaring crime, a failing economy and a menacing immigrant population is so false that no one, not even MAGA, believes it. Combine that with Trump’s dementia emerging in the last two weeks and revealed by signs of disinhibition, a condition often seen in demented people, and you have the positive, optimistic political atmosphere you describe in your post.
But, while I agree with your fine post, you might agree, too, that human events can be perverse and Trump still might win. 😕
I think Jane covered that possibility, Alan, and answered with, "Win or lose this grueling election, this growing movement [preserving democracy] will continue."
Alan, yes, I am very much aware that he still might win, especially after reading Frank Bruni's column in the Times today: "There Are Battleground States -- and Then There's North Carolina"
I probably should have written "would" instead of "will", and I had just watched a video of her in Philadelphia last night in which she said "we will win", which led me to think that her internal polling was positive. Let us hope that wiser, more generous hearts prevail once again and that vote counting will be faster than in 2020.
Elizabeth, you said this so well and so optimistically! VP Harris surprised me by being such a competent speaker and campaigner, but she also rather charmed me with her sunny personality and sharp wit combined with dead seriousness about the risks Trump and the rest of the Christian Nationalist Right Wing pose to our country.
And it hasn’t hurt her that Trump’s vision of America as a hateful, dark place with soaring crime, a failing economy and a menacing immigrant population is so false that no one, not even MAGA, believes it. Combine that with Trump’s dementia emerging in the last two weeks and revealed by signs of disinhibition, a condition often seen in demented people, and you have the positive, optimistic political atmosphere you describe in your post.
But, while I agree with your fine post, you might agree, too, that human events can be perverse and Trump still might win. 😕
I think Jane covered that possibility, Alan, and answered with, "Win or lose this grueling election, this growing movement [preserving democracy] will continue."
Alan, yes, I am very much aware that he still might win, especially after reading Frank Bruni's column in the Times today: "There Are Battleground States -- and Then There's North Carolina"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/opinion/north-carolina-harris-trump.html
I probably should have written "would" instead of "will", and I had just watched a video of her in Philadelphia last night in which she said "we will win", which led me to think that her internal polling was positive. Let us hope that wiser, more generous hearts prevail once again and that vote counting will be faster than in 2020.