W What T. S. Eliot said of humankind, that it "cannot bear very much reality," must be doubly true for Americans. It's a feature of being a providential nation, protected by two oceans and mostly spared the harsher existence that habituates other societies to corruption and tyranny, while left free to cultivate its uniquely optimistic political culture. The drawback of this good fortune is that, at decisive moments, a hopeful people can be blind to self-inflicted disasters. The reality facing America now is that of widespread, coordinated efforts to control our politics, carried out by a self-interested elite grown openly disdainful of the nation's traditions.
She totally nails it.
If Democrats aren't panicking yet, they might want to start. The Kamala Harris honeymoon is over, and the glow has dissipated. In six of the seven battleground states, former President Donald Trump now shows a slight lead in the polls. An NBC News poll released Sunday shows Harris and Trump tied in the national vote. We are three weeks out from Election Day and one thing has become clear: Trump might actually win. A Trump win would raise a lot of questions for Republicans. He's an objectively bad candidate who doesn't represent conservatism well. However, it would raise even more questions for Democrats. How could they have lost to such a uniquely awful opponent?
... ..Democrats were thrown into turmoil " at least temporarily " after President Joe Biden's dismal and sad debate performance in late June. The nationally televised fiasco provided obvious evidence of Mr. Biden's decline, making it impossible for his party to continue to feed Americans the unadulterated nonsense that the enfeebled president remained "sharp as a tack." Within a month, Democratic power brokers maneuvered to defenestrate Mr. Biden and anoint his vice president, Kamala Harris, as their new nominee. Thus began one of the more cynical and ambitious rehabilitation efforts in the history of modern politics. A vapid, unpopular vice president in an unpopular administration who flamed out spectacularly in her 2020 run for the Oval Office was within weeks recast as a purveyor of "joy" and an amalgamation of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Mahatma Gandhi.
Kamala Harris has become famous, in part, for her unique rhetorical style. She switches freely between various accents and peppers her speeches with catchphrases: pondering falling "out of a coconut tree," discussing "the significance of the passage of time," and moving the nation toward "what can be, unburdened by what has been." To her supporters, the vice president's rhetorical flourishes represent the values of compassion and optimism. To her detractors, her reliance on platitudes and tautologies demonstrates her unfitness for the presidency. But, as we have discovered in this exclusive report, another element appears to exist within Kamala Harris's rhetorical universe: plagiarism.
I do lov3 the way Tony Roma conflates "we are going to give you free' taxpayer money' with We are going to see to it that the government takes less of the money you have already earned.'