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The American November elections

I spent 41 years in Canada, a 15-minute drive from the American border.

I routinely crossed into the States in Buffalo, New York, several times a month.

The area is cautiously considered, and Buffalo, in particular, is not considered an ideal tourist destination.

I have been in New York, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, and Seattle countless times for work or vacation.

In 41 years of visiting the States, I have never had a problem with the people or the authorities, and I have never had a bad impression of people.

Americans are Westerners, like Canadians, who follow the same rhythms of life typical of modern Western nations.

They are, for me, very far from being odd or incomprehensible.

In short, Americans are not weird!

That’s why I am puzzled when I listen to politicians like Donald Trump and his VP candidate companion, JD Vance.

I still can’t figure out how the tired old charlatan and his VP bigot could grow so much politically in a dynamic, aggressively motivated, innovative country like the United States.

Those two individuals are really weird and have patched up an organization where sometimes they seem unable to maintain a straightforward distinction between facts and pure fabrications cynically concocted for electoral purposes.

Either MAGA assumes that American voters are a bunch of suckers that can be fooled by insisting on a series of childish inventions, like the countlessly debunked tale of the stolen election or the doubts about the place of birth and citizenship of Trump’s opponent.

However, an average voter may feel offended more frequently than Trump’s team expects.

Maga’s managers should ask themselves if Trump’s insulting and demeaning tone, his opportunistic switch from a negative to a favourable opinion of people, and his habit of routinely using derogatory adjectives when mentioning his adversaries are accepted by American voters as an oddity of the person.

Not to mention the recent incoherent mumbling of this tired and old man on child care.

A few Trumpists I know keep telling me that people don’t mind all that.

“They look to the substance,” they say.

What substance? Look at one of the Republicans’ prominent cases of incoherence: they succeeded in tearing down ROE, to discover at the subsequent elections that they lost the support of many women, resulting in the loss of the Senate and a disarticulated Congress where confusion and inefficiency reign sovereign. Support for women’s rights boils all over the country!

JD Vance gives a second example: this man lives in his world, dreaming of sending women back home to take care of procreating children for the country’s greatness.

Does DJ Vance know how much the world has changed since WWII? Does he have the slightest idea of today’s women’s aspirations?

He says the abysmal problem of the planned defunding of daycare will be solved by grandparents staying home to watch the grandchildren!

I suspect the massive section of the tourism, apparel supply chain, and entertainment industries that cater to seniors in the country is not worried about JD Vance. They know American seniors!

I also suspect that Republicans will regret for a very long time having submitted their party to the whims of an old and now visibly exhausted charlatan.

The sad squalor of the American Elections

The Trump supporters, to fend off the denunciations from the Democrats of the countless Trumo’s lies – an essential part of the Republican Campaign – invented the theory of the “correct direction.”

Trump’s VP JD Vance elaborated on this topic after the invention of the pet-eating immigrants, which had been promptly debunked, thanks to the intervention of Republican officials and North Carolina’s Republican Governor.

Still, JD Vance emphatically says the lie points in the “correct direction.”

Let us apply this profound philosophical concept to some of Trump’s debunked lies.

For example, Trump said that Woodie Golberg, the famous American actress, is ‘demential, filthy, dirty and disgusting.

There are several ‘correct directions’ for such a lie.

The first and most apparent is that being Woodie an American black, then American blacks are demential, filthy, dirty, and disgusting.

Another correct direction is that American black actors are demential, filthy, dirty, and disgusting.

A sub-category exists, the one of the black women actors.

During one of his rallies, he said Biden’s mind has deteriorated—sadly —making him mentally retarded, and the case was different for VP Harris, who he said was born that way.

This last invention is just an insult. Still, I mention it for two reasons: first, it further confirms that Trump is a cheap bull, using and enjoying foul language to delight his supporters, and second, it provides additional confirmation of how much he despises his base, throwing at it the cheapest arguments you can imagine, well sure of satisfying its appetite.

His tavern brawler style is a coveted choice. He thinks that his supporters, which include an array of common humanity, Christian nationalists and White Supremacists, as well as the bulk of tenacious conservatives, are delighted by the vulgarity of his rhetoric.

In that tone, yesterday, he emphasized the dignity and civility of his political dialogue calling Kamala Harris ” a shitty VP.”

Also, yesterday, he spent fifteen minutes illustrating to his base the incredible dimensions of the intimate parts of Arnold Palmer, the famous golfer.

Which is undoubtedly an essential and vital topic for the Republicans!

The “YES, BUT” of the WallStreet Journal

On the 20th, the WSJ published an editorial in which, after properly acknowledging the lies and fabrications of Donald Trump, made an extended analysis of what happened under his mandate and the actors and the circumstances that prevented his repeated attempts to push aside the law and at the very end of his presidency, to stop the power transfer to Biden.

The WSJ’s detailed analysis aims to dissipate Democrats’ and many Americans’ fears of an authoritarian Trump’s second mandate.

I am amazed by the fact that WSJ seems not to have noticed that their detailed descriptions of several events during Trump’s first mandate confirm that the fears of Trump’s declared authoritarian attitudes and purposes are very well founded.

Also, the WSJ’s reassurances that the same barriers and balances that mitigated or voided Trump’s violations of the rules four years ago still stand solidly fast are a somewhat questionable, if not dismissable, assumption.

To be fair to WSJ, today, WSJ has made a commendable analysis of the maneuvering that for months has been frantically going on behind the scenes in America on the Republican side to prepare itself to confront a deeply feared Trump defeat in the November elections.