Dems Lose to Trump’s VP Pick
Biden’s Hillary Stance Leaves Swing Voters Heading for Ohio and Pennsylvania
Just like that, the election is over, and the small hope I had left that Biden would bow out and pick a great candidate to replace him, like anyone, is done. In the course the weekend we went from reasonable hope to complete and assure defeat. Now I really am depressed. I’ll just go against my nature and give you a brief analysis from this announcement that popped up:
“Donald Trump, in his announcement on Truth social, says that J.D. Vance was “best suited” to be vice president. He referenced Vance’s time in the marine corps, his book “Hillbilly Elegy” and his career in tech and finance. Mr. Vance, he said, “championed the hardworking men and women” of America and would continue to do so on the trail.”” — NYTimes breaking news pop-up.
Joe Biden is basically the male version of Hillary Clinton: not really like-able, arrogant to think he will even when losing, with followers who didn’t really want him, tepid try to endorse him, and yet remain in disbelief when he (or she) loses. The Dems always love a bad fight and are used to pulling a defeat out of the jaws of an overwhelming victory.
Unlike with Hillary’s loss, which voters like me should have saw coming, who plug my nose and voted for her, the opposite feeling I had when voting for Obama, I now can see Go Joe’s lack of enthusiasm is overwhelming. He sends many people out speak about his good qualities, or they do it themselves out of habit of living too close to DC and wanting to remain liberal and sane. But even they are predicting the loss as some have said no one has ever won with an approval rating or polling at 38 or 35 percent.
Well, I’m not much for polling, even though I have an opinion like everyone answering the polls, but I do believe his chances just sunk significantly. Like to zero if he stays in.
JD Vance started off by authoring a popular book about the working-class whites in Southern Ohio. It’s a place I know and semi-like and sometimes feared. It’s a place right across the river at one point from Hazard County, Kentucky of the Dukes of Hazard fame and Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.
He was reasonable, articulate, with a background in finance (yeah for billionaires who love that sort of thing), educated, and champion of the (white) working class up North. He’s young. His book is film on Netflix with Glenn Close and Amy Adams that is ready to stream. Darn, they are actors I really like. He is the perfect storm.
His downside seemed to be lunacy. Here’s a guy writing a popular book suddenly switch over to a full MAGA version of nutty Trumpness. He drank some magic elixir that turned him into Mr. Hyde. But rest assured, it was a well-planned scheme. The potion is wearing off, and expect Dr. Jekyll to start speaking again, more moderate each day. He was a Never-Trumper, which shows to those of that crowd that he can temper the party if Trump dies. Don’t let liberal pundits fool you; this is plus. He’s like the Trump who will become reasonable, which will ease the Republican Party, and even make invigorate them.
If Trump drops out, this guy will beat Harris is she replaces Joe, and maybe anybody else if does not drink the potion again. If Joe runs, he is certainly doomed to a nice more reasonable midwestern slash rust belt realist. In other words, he will be solidifying the white working class vote Trump pulled over by blind anger and racist rhetoric, completing a decade long Northern Strategy plan. Fail once again you Dems, fail.
Trump if he stays in, with JD by his side, probably still can’t lose. He survived an assassination attempt in the most heroic way possible: by rising up, with a blood-streaked face, and fist pumped the crowd, urging them to fight the crooked Dems. He appeared strong, unbroken by even an attempt on his life, and his normal defiance or white resistance his follower’s lover, 74 million in the last election, probably just swelled with administration and excitement. It is a narrative sure to get those votes back and maybe millions more.
Biden on the other hand is stick to his blind faith that his increasing senility and lack of support will pull him through to a win despite his tepid non-followers promising to stick with him and convince the dropouts to join them. Now they won’t. Because it’s over. I know it. Who was the last VP under Trump? Some dried up super white live stiff who called his white Mother? Ugh. Trump decided to go with zip and pizzazz, who unfortunately knows investment banking and moderation.
Let’s hope for a miracle now. Too bad I’m not religious, but I’m willing to try anything new, like a functioning democracy.
