We now have a pretty good idea of the makeup of the 2020 national election. While most polls currently show a sizeable lead for Joe Biden, there are some salient reports of a pandemic-ridden response to the events of election day 2020.
The strongest theory for Trump to not vacate the White House, in an electoral loss, is that he will immediately declare the results of the election invalid due to massive “voter fraud” brought on by ‘mail-in ballots.’ Trump has been tweeting fiercely about the, totally proven falsehood, ‘fact’ that mail-in ballots are somehow an open highway to voter fraud. Using his right-hand henchman, Bill Barr, Trump will open a DOJ “investigation” into election fraud and will delay the final electoral vote which must take place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Since there will be no formal winner declared in December (December 14, 2020), the DOJ will then force all of the so-called ‘swing states’ to invalidate their results and the case will be thrown to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will not take a position on the case and will leave it to the states to resolve. The majority of swing states are held by Republican legislatures and they can then appoint their own electoral votes and thus turn the election over to Trump. In this scenario, Biden could win the popular vote by as much as 8-10% (a virtual landslide) and Trump could remain in office.
The makeup of the 2020 race is not one defined by any policy positions or ideological debates. It is first and foremost a referendum on Trump himself, his total lack of character and morality and his complete and total abdication of leadership and responsibility when it comes to the COVID pandemic. When it comes to public health, the administration has redefined what the phrase FUBAR means. In addition to overseeing the world’s absolute worst response to the pandemic, we also have the ongoing relationship with 45 and Russia…one that has seen highly sensitive intelligence data regarding Russian bounties for coalition forces to be murdered, while the administration has suggested that the US Intelligence data is, wait for it, “Fake News.”
In the middle of a massive pandemic the country is also facing, for the umpteenth time, a look at the history of its oppression to blacks and minorities. The murder of George Floyd came on top of staggering statistics that showed black and brown people dying of the virus at alarmingly higher rates than whites. Deep, systemic racism, economic and environmental injustice and extreme inequities in health care laid bare the reality that there are, at the very least, two Americas.
The roadmap of all fascism is division. The Nazis took power by dividing the country into smaller fractions and playing on the fears and insecurities of the slices. The 2020 game plan for Trump is a doubling-down on his 2016 bet that Americans would vote out of fear (and anger). Who can forget the soaring oratory of the January 2017 Inauguration where we were told about the great “American Carnage” from one of the ugliest humans ever to walk the earth. Not a huge stretch to guess that the guy who wailed about American Carnage would be the one to create the exact scenario he dreamt about in his fever-pitched, sweaty-faced “Inaugural speech.”
Sell Crazy Someplace Else
This 4th of July, while the country normally celebrates its independence as the “United States,” we were served up a big ol’ heaping plate of racism, division and downright hateful rhetoric from a sweaty, deranged man in orange, circus-clown makeup. The ‘newsflash’ of the evening was that fascism is somehow now…left? I guess saying that fascism is left makes sense if you live in the twisted, spiders-in-the-brain, conspiracy riddled world of Q or QAnon? You really need the wheels to be coming off the track, and perhaps some copious amounts of opiate ingestion, to “get” what Q is saying. This is as depraved and bat-shit crazy as the lowest of the lows humans can navigate.
This is Trump’s audience. The “White Power” guy in the video he re-tweeted, the QAnons, the absolute fucking nut-job conspiracy theorists who drone on and on about the “Deep State.” “Obamagate,” the “Plandemic” and the mysterious global cabal of the New World Order and George Soros that the divine Donald Trump is going to single-handedly bring down. As Robin would say, Holy Fucking Shit Batman.
In this world, everyone is the “enemy,” the other. The media is the Enemy of the People, the Republican Conservative Constitutionalists like George Will and Bill Kristol…they are the enemy. The former George W. Bush cabinet members and staffers that formed the Alumni for Biden PAC are the enemy. The former Republican strategists that formed The Lincoln Project are the enemy. The former generals that have denounced Trump are the enemy. All of this is just a plot by the Deep State because they cannot handle an “outsider” upsetting their New World Order.
As I mentioned in the last post, this is the dying vestiges of the Evangelical Right (White Evangelicals) in their final throes of existence. They have bet the farm on their new savior, Donald Jesus Trump. “Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election. You must listen to the trumpet very closely for he will sound the alarm and many will be blessed because of his compassion and mercy.” Jesus H. Fucking Christ Almighty, for sure. WTAF?
The Evangelicals and Trump have bellied up to the table and have placed their last big bet on America tearing itself apart at the seams. Betting that the country will dissolve under the Veneer of Civilization. So we are pummeled with divisive, hateful rhetoric. Us against them. “They” are the enemy, they are evil. We will “safeguard our values” from enemies within — leftists, looters, agitators…blah, blah, fucking blah. As Jack Nicholson said as the character Melvin Udall in “As Good As It Gets:” Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here!
Clean Up On Aisle Seven
Just one problem with the White Nationalist, Neo-Nazi, alt-right Fascist, American Carnage world view…the people ain’t buying it. Support for Black Lives Matter has become a majority across the USA and the movement is now the largest political movement in the history of the country. Multi-cultural, multi-generational and massive…the protests have laid to rest the American Carnage bullshit that Trump spews and all but guarantees that his Lord Of The Flies reality will NEVER come to fruition. In fact, it is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. The American (and global) public has said fuck you to Trump, Trumpism and the doctrine of American Carnage and hate. See one of the latest from the people at Meidas Touch here: Vote Out Hate.
The collection of generals, the Conservative intelligentsia, the former Republican strategists and GWB staffers and the American people are proving once again that in times of crisis…people come together in love and support. Human civility is NOT covered by a thin veneer, it is the basis of who we are. As Rumi said: “We Are Nothing But Breathing Human Beings.” In his “One Song” he says: “All religions, all this singing, one song.” This is America, this is the United States. We are not the fear-filled country of the constantly aggrieved White Evangelicals, we are a country of misfits, of immigrants…a myriad of colors and beliefs, flavors from all across planet earth, and we lift each other up in our unique diversity. One Song!
Make no mistake about it, Trump is, if anything, a terrible poker player. He will double and triple down on the politics of division, of hatred and identity. Now is when we rise up and, in the words of General James Mattis, we say: “We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.” We can and will UNITE and we will rid the country of this cancerous and vulgar man. We will then be left with the cult of Trumpism, the Qanons and the racists. We will give birth to a new Manifest Destiny, one that is not only inclusive, but that gets us back on the rails toward creating our ‘more perfect union.’