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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, September 4, 2020

Nothing Matters

How many times have we seen Trump saying something that would end the career of any other politician? How many awful things has he said about human beings because he can't see certain people are legitimately human? You would think that his latest vomitous expression of bilious narcissism - saying that US military is staffed by "losers" and "suckers" - would be the end of him. Trump - significantly - does not enjoy plurality support among active duty service members; Biden is beating him. My guess is that if we see more confirmation of this reporting, combined with the bounty story, we could see Trump's number dip below 40%. 

But maybe not. 

I'm skeptical that anything can pierce the willful disregard for the majority of Americans that grips Trump supporters. Of course, if Trump gets 38% of the vote, that's worse than Hoover did.

Still, I'll believe it when I see it.

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