With the election nine days away and October surprises (so far) surprising no one, media will continue a drumbeat of soft-sell and hard-self efforts to affect the election. Social media morons will have their conniptions. And, the Harris campaign will invent more ways to call Trump "Caligula."
A long-anticipated descent into “He’s a Fascist” rhetoric has moved front and center. Now that the joy is gone, Harris' campaign has pulled out the "Nazi" card. Trump is a FASCIST!!
Teri Christoph discussed the reaction of voters to this nonsense. It didn't work. Voters are repulsed by the evidence-free claim. Harris' campaign is touting retired generals who have denounced Trump as a... "FASCIST!" General Eyebags, aka General Milley, claimed in a book that Trump is a... FASCIST!
There will be more.
Kamala’s media leg-humpers and celebrity wailers will croak out warnings of a democracy in collapse. The apocalypse cometh. Trump they say, is a master manipulator, a genius evildoer who plans to take over the country; and at the same time, Trump is as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Make it make sense. I can’t.
I am honestly amazed at how shrill it has become. I take that back. I’m not amazed. They are apoplectic because Trump is, for the first time, leading in the polls. He’s now leading in most, if not all, swing states, and the theoretical has become the likely. Cultists are freaking out.
A woman wore a “MAGA” hat at Game 1 of the World Series, and leftists watching the game on their TVs were pulling hamstrings in disgust. Some likely threw shoes at their screens.
Warning: coarse language.
You ok, bro? Nah, he's not. On Saturday, he's likely putting more pins into his Trump voodoo doll.
How dare a Trump plant wear that racist hat! They ignored the blatantly false claims made in multiple Harris ads – ads that have been forced on the viewing public. I don’t know how many of those ads started with “Trump’s Project 2025.” Sure, it was irritating. But I didn’t throw a shoe at my TV, nor did I rush to “X” to go "WWWHhaaa!" like a 3-year-old.
Here's a pro tip to the cultists: You didn’t have to look at the MAGA hat lady. But they did. Incessantly. Apparently, they couldn’t take their eyes off the MAGA hat. My wife informed me of the MAGA hat lady. In the second inning, she had to point to her. I hadn’t noticed because I was watching ... a baseball game.
Those people reminded me of petulant children.
“MOM! Donny’s bothering me!!”
“MOM! Donny’s staring at me!!”
With a few days before the election, compliant media, like a used car salesman dropping hints, will be ramping up their soft sell pitches. This morning I saw a CNN video titled: "Kamala Harris, Her Life and Career Before She Was VP." Because I write for RedState, I had to watch it. You don’t. It was nothing more than a four-minute, “Harris for President” ad. It ended with Harris claiming that her favorite part of trial work was standing up and saying,
“Your honor, Kamala Harris, for the people.”
Yeah, sure, Kams. As discussed previously by a retired trial attorney on staff here, I call "BS" on her claims of being "Johnny Cochran."
And, this morning, I read a Reuters article titled:
Sixty years after the unwinding of Jim Crow, a historic US election
If it had been published after the election or a few months before, it would be interesting - but the timing is less than a coincidence.
It begins with useless filler – obvious pablum to tie in the content to the two candidates, and their tenuous connection to Jim Crow and The Voting Rights Act of 1964:
Both candidates have been touched by the legislation in their earlier lives.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was bused to school as a young girl in California, as part of efforts across the country to bring children from largely Black areas to schools in largely white neighborhoods and vice versa.
In 1973, the federal government sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s family-owned Trump Management Co. for discriminating against Black tenants under legislation that expanded on the original act.
This is part of the soft sell.
Harris is portrayed as a poor little schoolgirl. A black girl bussed to a racist, white school, or something. Trump is depicted as the evil landowner, probably wearing a white suit and straw hat.
In the article, only one of the nine victims of racism mentioned the candidates.
Nanella O’Neal Graham, 74, told the interviewer:
[She] dismisses Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan as a call to go back when Black Americans were subjugated.
“It’s not ‘make America great again.’ It’s ‘make America white again.’"
But most of the article details how times have changed. Much like the black men interviewed in Matt Walsh’s documentary, “Am I Racist?” the author found people expressing a very different reality in 2024. It isn’t 1964:
Paulyne Morgan White, 95, said:
Though she uses a walker, she said she planned to vote in person, noting with a smile that because of her age she got special treatment at the polls.
"I'm going to vote on voting day," she said. "I like the activity. And I don't have to wait in line."
She said voting can make a difference but the right politicians need to be elected.
Note that Morgan is apparently treated with the deference and courtesy she deserves. It isn't 1964.
The Reuters article ends with the story of Jonny Newson, 71. He lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi:
A gifted tractor mechanic, Newson’s late father Charlie went into business on his own when he found out the white trainees he was instructing were earning more than he was.
He opened Newson Auto Parts in 1971, a bail bond business in 1976, and added to his empire by buying buildings and renting space to a barbershop, a beauty parlor
and a dry cleaners.
Newson looked out on the block of buildings his family owns on Martin Luther King Avenue, the main street in the Black part of his Mississippi Delta town.
“That’s my dad’s legacy,” Newson said. “And I don’t intend to let his legacy die.”
It isn't 1964, but the timing and the lede of the article is the soft sell – the gratuitous contrast between “little, black Kamala and Trump’s family being sued 50 years ago, and the “Trump wants to take us back to Jim Crow,” is obvious nonsense. But it is prepping for more. media “soft sells,” which will be everywhere this coming week.
The hard sells will be the Joy Reids of media screeching from the screen, warning the coming Trump presidency will be a meteor-like event striking the country and wiping out all minority life and rights, with only white people in white hoods surviving. Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann will blather loudly, maybe in unison, that Trump is Hitler and Harris is the French resistance.
The hard sell pitch won’t end on Election Day. Unfortunately, it will continue. When Trump doesn’t “reign” - as Caligula or Hitler or Palpatine - expect the cult to continue with laminations and gnashing of teeth, even after Trump leaves office.