She is, as ever — a far sharper observer of the US landscape than I am (having lived four decades in battleground state Michigan — but now for a decade on the Emerald Isle’s safety from far right militias that would have potentially ended her).
She focuses today on Trump’s flip-flops — or flailings, on women’s bodily autonomy, and why he WILL lose in November, thus.
…[F]lailing.
Panic.
A recognition that he is losing because of actions he took as President, he is losing because of what the payoff he owed to social conservatives who put him in the White House, a far right SCOTUS, did to women. What NYT journalists with another book contract describe as “head-spinning” is not about branding, it’s about panic because Kamala threatens to hold him accountable for his actions.
No matter how many contradictory statements Trump makes about what a second Trump term would do, there’s no escaping what his first term did do. There are no backsies on Dobbs. There are no backsies on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. There aren’t even any backsies on that platform granting fetuses protection under the 14th Amendment, even if NYT’s Trump whisperers continue to pretend that didn’t happen….
Trump is only here, in the race, because of those ideologues who were willing to alter the Constitution to serve a far right agenda. Trump has survived thanks to that Court; he is panicking as he considers the possibility it’ll sink him as well….
Trump, who [has been running since 2022, to try to Jimmie the felony indictments and convictions against him] is 91% of the way through his run to regain the presidency.
Not so Kamala Harris.
As I calculated Wednesday, Kamala is just starting the second third of her campaign, what we might call her second trimester if it were three times as long. As of today, she has 60% of her campaign, 64 days of 107, left to go….
And this, as EW points out — is when low information voters tune in. She is pulling away from his agenda of control of women, and hatred of all things pluralistic.
Onward. Forward. She will… win!
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