With less than 60 hours remaining before the close of polls in this year's general election, there's probably little use to make another plea at this time to save Madisonian democracy in the United States.
Either we will, or we won't.
Convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump could very well regain the presidency he lost to Joe Biden four years ago, and if you can sort through the sewage that has spewed from his mouth the past few years, we clearly know that he would have no issue suspending the Constitution (see here). He actually proposed that unAmerican abomination several years ago.
He had four years to correct the border issue and the best he could do was separate children from their families. His solution this time around – in addition to the resurrection of his child separation policy – is to to build detention camps for the millions of migrants he plans to deport. Detention camps. Let that sink in.
He has an economic plan to increase tariffs while lowering taxes. If all you see is "lowering taxes," you missed the part where tariffs would raise the price of everything this country imports by 20 percent. Nearly every creditable economist in the country has indicated Trump tariffs would lead to a recession within the year of his administration See here.)
Women's health care is on life support after Roe v. Wade was repealed. If Trump is defeated on Tuesday, it will be because women have revolted on the assault of their reproductive rights.
A few weeks ago, Trump denigrated the city of Detroit while campaigning in Detroit. I'm still trying to figure out the strategy behind that. But then in another campaign rally in New York less than a week later, the island of Puerto Rico was described as "garbage." I wonder how many votes that got him in Pennsylvania, which has a large Puerto Rican population?
In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday in Arizona, Trump talked briefly about Liz Cheney, the congresswoman who served on the House select committee and helped investigate Trump's role in the Jan. 6 riot. During the interview, Trump called her a "war hawk," whatever that is.
"She's a radical war hawk," Trump told Carlson. "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?"
Holy crap. I don't care how that statement gets spun and interpreted by the right, it's still describing a firing squad. This takes on further color with Trump's latest description of his opponents as "the enemy from within."
As Cheney pointed out, statements like this "is how dictators destroy free nations."
This is how democracy's die. And keeping our democracy is the true issue here – the only issue, in my view – for which we are voting on Tuesday.
God help us all.
