Why does this election feel so different?
One guess
If 2020 was the face mask election, this one is turning out to be the Bounty election -- you know…the “quicker picker upper” paper towels we need to clean up Trump’s unhinged meltdowns.
Never-Trumper George Conway went on MSNBC “Morning Joe” on Monday to call Trump “a deeply unwell man…a deeply psychologically disturbed individual,” because Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris not just of lying about her crowd size at a recent Detroit rally, but of faking the crowd altogether, somehow using AI to show the 15,000 or so who were in attendance inside an airplane hanger when Harris’ Air Force Two plane pulled up outside. Trump posted this on his social media platform:
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches. This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING.”
The crowd that showed up to fill the airport hanger to hear Harris and running mate Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota,wasn’t fake, nor have been any of her crowds.
What is different about this election is how we’re seeing it through two sets of eyes – our own, and those of the man who after thinking he was cruising to an easy win in November against a frail and fading Joe Biden, now sees himself losing, and he really, really can’t stand it.
The Democrats have been on offense since the afternoon Joe Biden suspended his campaign three weeks ago. That Biden dropped out was not a surprise to many, but it was to Trump, who quickly called foul and even briefly claimed that the switch of candidates before the Democratic Convention was somehow “unconstitutional,” as if the Constitution of the United States has anything to say about the rules of American political campaigning. The Harris campaign used the element of surprise to maximum effect by being prepared to hit the campaign trail running without any apparent preparation prior to the Biden announcement.
The Trump campaign was caught flatfooted, or flat golf carted, take your pick. Pundits who only days previously had been consulting medical texts on early-onset dementia in covering Biden were suddenly parsing Trump’s language at his Mar a Lago press conference and finding abrupt jumps by Trump from one subject to another in the middle of sentences and going over his continual references to the fictional Hannibal Lecter for clues to his mental acuity.
The kitten heel, as it were, was on the other foot, and Trump’s discomfort was there for all to see.
This is an excerpt from my weekly Salon column. For the rest of the column, go here:
Why does this election feel so different? Because we’re all acting as if our life depends on it.
It does.
Echoing others, it appears the Felon's BS takedown of Kamala's amazing crowds is more sinister than just plain stupid. He is greasing the slippery slope for a repeat of a J6 attempted coup/insurrection in 2025. We must be aware and vigilant.