Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded us recently, absolutely ‘went crazy’ over what he had to say. (And it couldn’t matter less that the event had no live audience whatsoever.) In a sense, he isn’t wrong. After all, it’s still all too possible that, in a couple of weeks, he could once again be elected — yes! — president of the United States. Indeed, it’s as yet unclear whether American voters will decline The Donald, but what is increasingly clear — there can’t be a doubt on the subject — is that he himself is on the decline in a typically wild and mad sort of way.” [editor’s note: And we libertarians continue to ask, what is the downside of an “empire going down,” if a republic is rising from the ashes? – SAT] [additional editor’s note: I doubt I’d like the prospective “republic” any more than the current one – TLK] (10/21/24)