Political rallies aren’t roasts
How can anyone make sense of this election?
I realize there are millions of people who think it makes perfect sense — that either former President Donald Trump is going to “Make America Great Again” or Vice President Kamala Harris is going to “Save Democracy.”
But for those of us not inspired by slogans and lawn signs, it’s a little harder to sort out.
I want both to lose, which I realize isn’t going to happen.
For all of their loyalists’ certainty, I am just as certain that both are ridiculous.
Trump has spent the past four years cashing in on his next-level fame by selling Trump coins, Trump crypto and Trump Bibles. I want to believe this is just an elaborate, decade-long piece of performance art, a satirical commentary on the sad state of our nation, but it’s not. It’s just a snake-oil salesman who somehow became president. Trump has plenty of negatives, but I don’t really need to know anything else about him to know I’ll never vote for him.
I was going to move on to Harris, but it must be repeated: Trump Bibles! According to the website, this is “the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!” It doesn’t seem he’s read any version of the Bible, but, to reiterate, the only one he endorses is the one with that licenses his name.
Is Harris any better? Harris is different. Having lived in California with her as attorney general, U.S. senator and vice president, I can safely say I don’t know what she really believes. She will be whatever she thinks the greatest number of voters want her to be. She was tough on crime, but also soft on crime, and then a made-for-TV progressive in the Senate and now a change candidate who can’t say how she’ll differ from her boss, President Joe Biden.
