Blog Credo

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, November 5, 2024

Nauseously Optimistic

 So, here we are. 

I - nor anyone else - has any idea what's about to happen or even when. Maybe we go to bed tonight profoundly relieved or maybe we wait a couple of days to have our faith shaken once more in the basic human goodness of our countrymen. 

If it were anyone other than Trump, I think we would feel that Harris has it in the bag. She has amazing energy, bipartisan support and a lot of fundamentals on her side. Trump seems pre-defeated. He's such a bizarre creature, though, that his low-energy gloom at his rallies could be because he has gotten bad news from his polling or simply because his rallies are mostly empty, sad affairs. 

Anyway, good luck tonight and possibly for the next 48 hours as we decide whether or not we will continue this republican experiment or backslide into demagogic autocracy.

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