t’s Election Day in the United States. I’m writing this at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. Millions of Americans will stand in line to vote. By 7:00 p.m., a third of the country will have voted. By 10:00, nearly all those wanting to vote will have cast their votes. Kamala was my choice. Who was yours?
The New York Times editorial board on Monday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “the only patriotic choice for president” while painting a grim picture of a second term for former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, a delusional old man, will stand on the same stage as Vice-President Kamala Harris on September 10 in a debate on ABC moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis. It won’t be a debate. It will be a TV show casting a convicted felon, sexual abuser, and a fraudster against the Vice President who is an experienced prosecutor, district attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and now as the Vice-President of the United States. ABC news advanced advertising does nothing to point these differences, instead normalizing a criminal with serious psychological and harmful beliefs about America.
As the 2024 presidential election looms, the echoes of the past grow louder. Trump and Trumpism have stirred a storm that threatens to repeat itself.
Trump’s dangerousness and continued authoritarian language echo present and past strongmen such as Berlusconi, Putin, and Hitler.
The storm raging is Trumpism, and it must be blown out to sea.
The United States could lose its democracy if the Trumpist far-right demagogues gain the White House. As Umair points out in his post, Emanuel Macron, president of France, warned the French people that France’s democracy could die and said it depends entirely on the choices made now. The United States is in the same situation France faced until last Sunday. The center and left of France came together and formed a Republican Front. In French politics, the “republican front” describes a combined effort of several mainstream political parties and their voters to minimize the changes of the far right winning elections.
