I can’t wait for this election to be over and for everything settle down. I know it won’t actually be over on election day because all the votes won’t be fully counted. But even if Harris wins (and I predict she will), it won’t be over because Trump has already set the stage to contest the results if he loses. He has Speaker Mike Johnson in his corner along with a bought and paid for Supreme Court. My hope is that Americans deliver the House and Senate to the democrats to effectively shut down their nefarious plan to steal the election if Trump loses.
Even if Harris wins, nearly half the country will feel like the world is coming to an end. They have been convinced that she is “stupid”, without policy plans, is a Marxist or communist, and is dangerous. They have been convinced that the country is falling apart despite all objective indicators that it is not. There is literally a fog of fear, misogyny, bigotry and blind devotion clouding their eyes and brains so that they cannot hear reason or have faith in their own five senses.
Trump supporters are incapable of trusting the economists, business leaders, constitutional law experts, psychologists, scientists, teachers, military generals and even Trump family members who are warning us of his fascism and dangerous plans that will negatively affect the economy, the environment, and vulnerable citizens. Even Elon Musk, the billionaire supporting Trump, has said that his economic plans will cause a lot of financial pain to millions of Americans at first, but that things will eventually get better. What does that mean and how much pain and for what? So, the top 1% can get another tax break and Trump can carry out his bigoted deportations? Unemployment is at a 50-year record low meaning immigrants aren’t stealing jobs but doing jobs we rely on.
Think for a moment about what it will mean to deport millions of people and all the businesses who will be hurting for employees. Think about the loss of customers for businesses and the loss of tax revenues to cities and to Social Security and Medicare that his mass deportation will cause. Think of all the heartache and pain he will inflict on people seeking a better life. His other policies are just as worrisome.
Think of how tariffs raise consumer prices. Mike Johnson has already promised to end the Affordable Care Act with no solid plan waiting to replace it. And Trump has offered no relief to working families, climate change, gun violence, or Social Security. He has offered JFK, Jr. a position in charge of our health when he has no medical or science background. He promises to give police immunity for police brutality and to weaponize the military against citizens he considers to be “the enemy from within”. He expresses his desire to take away the licenses of television networks he doesn’t like. The man who boasted about grabbing women by their genitals claims that “he will protect women, even if they don’t like it.” And just this week, he shared his desire to have Liz Cheney shot by a firing squad.
It has become crystal clear that Trump and his supporters believe that the real Americans are white Christian people who support him and that the rest of us are second class citizens residing in their country. Like he did before, he will work only on behalf of his supporters, not everyone. This is a man ruled by instinct and ego and has no regard for the rule of law nor our Constitution nor factual data. We’ve seen this firsthand, and we’ve been warned by those close to him. A future Trump Administration will be devoid of adults to stop him from following those instincts.
Should Harris win and take office, his supporters are fearful that minorities and liberals might take over and do what exactly? Trump has convinced his followers that only he can save this country from certain destruction of a country filled with black and brown people who are insane rapists and murderers. He’s claims that the entire country will become like Detroit if the Democrats win. That’s a lot to be afraid of if his claims were actually based in reality.
But the reality is very different and even though they are living it, they don’t believe it. Biden won in 2020 and what we’ve experienced is a growing economy, low unemployment, higher wages, new infrastructure projects taking place, savings and investments growing, lower crime rates, the pandemic under control, former students being freed from crippling student debt that structurally resists repayment, and a stronger NATO. Is everything perfect. Of course not! Inflation was high because of the pandemic, but it is back to normal, however that still leaves us with sticker shock. And people are still dying from Fentanyl smuggled in by American citizens, not immigrants. And we’re all upset by the wars in Gaza and Ukraine even though our soldiers aren’t actually fighting in those wars. No one likes seeing innocent people blown up and whole cities destroyed. Undocumented immigrants are still coming but the flow is less since Biden took executive action after Trump destroyed the bi-partisan immigration bill.
There are real problems that need to be dealt with so why fabricate problems? It’s a lie that children are having sex change operations at school, that Haitians are eating pets, that climate change is a hoax, that childless cat ladies are ruining the country, that doctors are killing newborns, that everyone wanted the abortion bans, and that most migrants are insane people here to rape and murder us.
If Trump wins, it will be the beginning of more than just fatigue, but the beginning of serious sorrows for many people. I told my husband yesterday that my biggest fear beyond his election was that Trump would lose the election and after unsuccessfully trying to steal it again, he would immediately announce his candidacy for 2028 to avoid prison. And worse, that we would let him do it.