Source: The Bulwark
by AB Stoddard
“Canceling events, less carefully blending his BBQ-sauce-tinted bronzer, admiring Arnold Palmer’s pecker, empathizing with Harvey Weinstein, cursing before Catholic priests, lamenting a fictional loss of cows, and going full fascist. This is Donald Trump’s final sales pitch to voters. Is he trying to lose? Assuredly not. Trump is obsessed with winning. But, still, it’s hard to imagine a less constructive close to a campaign. Are any still-wavering voters swayed by Trump’s latest lies about January 6th, or his authoritarian plans for his critics, let alone his fondness for The King’s large penis? We should assume some Trump campaign staffers … have explained to him that undecided voters broke for him over Hillary Clinton by 18 percent in 2016. A focused message at the eleventh hour can be decisive. But Trump is increasingly incoherent and unstable and doesn’t seem to care if voters know it.” (10/21/24)