It’s a long read, but it’s a damn good one.
You’re not kidding. I feel like I have actual real reason to permit a modicum of hope now.
Now everybody capitalize on their fumble and vote!
As a non-american, somehow this article rubs me the wrong way. I have a suspicion that all the talk about public relation disasters and staffers worried about their candidate‘s reputation does not accurately portrait what is really going on there. To me it looks like everything that happened including the MSG shitshow was absolutely the way they wanted it to go. It’s a page out of the fascist playbook and it uses the same tactics that have been proven successful since Germany 1933. The explicit goal is to strengthen the collective bonds with voters who already made their decision and to kick it up a notch at the same time. They don’t give a shit about angering Puerto Rican voters or even maintaining a modicum of decency in general. They are trying to provoke a mania in their own base that spirals out of control and so far it works pretty well for them. This is an endgame strategy. The only thing that is not going according to plan is that their candidate is falling apart mentally and it’s a race against time to get him back into office. Or is it, Mr. Vance?
I could of course be completely wrong on this and I would be more than happy to be proven wrong.
He smirked at the compliment. “What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
That right there tells me all I ever want to know about Trump and how he sees competition.
For me, this paragraph sums it up:
_Several campaign officials had told me, throughout the spring and summer, how excited they were about working in the next Trump White House. Now those same people were telling me—as paperwork was being distributed internally to begin the process of placing personnel on the transition team and in the prospective administration—that they’d had a change of heart. The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos of Donald Trump—even if the nation was not. _
They had to be right next to Trump to realize how toxic he is. How voluntarily blind can you be?
They’re gonna save themselves (of course), but will they do anything to save the country from Trump? No, of course not, that would require a spine.
