The quickening
I don’t think the latest news-headline claimed “assassination attempt” oughta count. Or, if you count it, you are now obliged to count the myriad of not close attempts that came to all the other presidents, and then quickly flipped out of the news — the car that crashed into the White House gate in the Clinton Administration, the wacky message board announcement on plans against Obama at his inauguration. Maybe these are one and two steps back of the golf course assailant, but the golf course assailant is one and two steps back from the man who got to Trump’s ear — so I mark it as — oh, something the Secret Service has to figure out — even if the figuring out here is figuring out how to talk Trump into a more private golf course — but not more.
Good news! Allan Lichtman and Bill Maher have each declared Harris will win. No need to sweat anything anymore! And I guess the logic comes through. Maher passed by a reference to the Joseph McCarthy as means of historical comparison of a passing of a darkness. “They are eating the dogs; they are eating the cats” apparently analogous to when the generals turn. I can’t decide whether JD Vance’s role here — dipping in and holding further to “if we have things up” to get the media to pay attention to Springfield — an admission he has to scramble to cover up — moves me off of “want to have a beer with” idea or solidified it. Maybe I am still trying to figure out something with this guy, but it is hard to say I would get it. A new old podcast chat from him dropped. He is talking with someone, apparently I am told an Alex Jones lawyer — very much holding onto his claim to an avatar of the Appalachian hill-billy, though an avatar stripped of any humanity. Whether many of the new gawkers of the podcast interview know it or not, he is taking off the “Nine Nations of North Americ”, useful in thinking of regional political alignments, but as presented by Vance rather deadening. The takeaway people seem to take from Vance on his hillbillies of Appalachia being the swing vote on the plantation Southerners and the New England Yankees, insufferable wokes — is a puzzled “is this a defence of slavery?” – – and on to “where do the other parts of the nation sit in this?”. The book probably gets a recommended for Amazon purchasers of, say, Thom Hartmann’s favorite, Strauss and Howe’s Generational Turning books — the same ball park and something that may explain something but nothing on a person’s decided approach on public policy. The map is not the terrain. You don’t want color commentary on your political prejudices and biases. Might be why he underperformed the party ticket in his Senate campaign?
What percentage of the vote is Mark Robinson getting? 42?