The Fifth of November
When the Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph is more “electable” than the actual candidate she portrays, we have reason to be curious about what will happen, and which electoral path serves up our next US President.
To understand our upcoming future, we can look at four categories of “players.” Voters, parties, the state, and “the people.”
First, the voters. They think they are the most important part of the election. Many of them now have met and gotten to know a bit about the “other” side’s voters, and there seems to be a consensus that the Harris voter has only two rules. Rule 1 is DC must be unchanged. Rule 2 is a woman is always the morally superior choice, so long as she follows Rule 1. They are frightened people, casting a fear vote to “save democracy.” This is how LBJ was elected, to some extent.
The Trump voter, on the other hand is angry, yet optimistic and jovial, and who also wants to “save democracy.” We have a fearful voter long past humor pitted against an angry voter who self-depreciates at the drop of a hat. This may be why the “joyful Kamala” campaign line was seen as necessary by her advisors, and why voters on both sides see it as absurd.
Second, the parties. The GOP and the Democratic Party are both defective as tools for the people, because they only represent the state. Trump’s brilliant, naive, and just plain lucky approach was to choose the right party to transform towards populism, and he did that. He created a new party out of an old one – taking into his movement the best of the democrats, accelerating the destruction of the former Democrat Party. Today, we have a state-sustaining uni-party and a state-opposed/state-questioning people’s party. The current candidates of these parties may both be statists; happily, both of the old parties have been properly and wonderfully assaulted into unrecognizability.
Third, we have the state itself, in all its complexity. Whether by design or accident, American federalism harnesses the self-preservation animus of politicians, and enables their opportunism. The permanent DC bureaucracy is middle-aged, well-off, outdated in ideas, technology, and attitude. If it is fired en masse, via Muskian design, Trumpist rage,
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