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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

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Over/Under On Tonight's Racism

 The day before the debate, the GOP's leading lights are all yammering about a patently false story about Haitians in Ohio eating house pets (and ducks, which...yeah). I think we can probably agree that Trump will call Harris a Haitian and it will be ignored by the media.

The degree to which Trump will lapse into racism is a really "interesting question" if you're devoid of feeling for the national experiment in democracy and decency. The expectations game is part of the debate process, and I worry that if Trump doesn't actively use the N-word, he will be lauded for his restraint. 

The consensus seems to be that Harris is going to try and get under Trump's skin so that he says something awful. I wish I could believe that if Trump came out and called her a slur it would have an appreciable difference on the election.

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