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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

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Your Daily Narcissist

 And it isn't Trump!

No, the Narcissist of the Day is Cornell West. West, as a scholar, had a good idea 35 years ago and rode that to a sort of scholarly celebrity. However, he backed Ralph Nader in 2000. That's a huge negative against him in my book. When he backed Jill Stein in 2016, that's it. Fuck that guy. He actually came to our school and I refused to go see him out of spite.

Now, he's launched a similar vanity campaign that is very specifically designed to siphon votes from Biden. And who's funding it? Harlan Fucking Crow. 

I have a hunch that the next six months will see Biden's election numbers improve as Trump's legal troubles accelerate and people realize that their choice - like it or not - is between a guy you wished were ten years younger and a guy you wished was in prison already.

Trump's only avenue to winning is a third party spoiler like West. That seems to be his raison d'etre in politics: electing Republicans with a minority of the vote.

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