Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 | 2 a.m.
We now have witnessed two assassination makes an attempt on the previous president, the Republican nominee, who blames hateful, violent rhetoric by the Democrats. He’s forgetting his personal hatemongering, disgusting rhetoric spewed most not too long ago on the harmless residents of Springfield, Ohio, a metropolis which most U.S. residents in all probability can not discover on a map. Consequently, these residents have been visited by a few of this nation’s most vile inhabitants.
On the similar time, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, calls herself a joyful warrior. That is no time for such. The Republican nominee and his ilk, ought to they win the White Home, are lethal critical of their intent to impose on us their agenda of revenge, grievances, resentments and recriminations, together with their modern-day model of ethnic cleaning. He has acknowledged this fairly overtly: mass deportations of individuals of colour, being “a dictator on Day One,” and no want to fret about voting once more.
In 1968, Vice President Hubert Humphrey turned the Democratic nominee throughout in all probability a fractious Democratic conference after President Lyndon Johnson introduced he wouldn’t search reelection. Humphrey proclaimed himself “the pleased warrior.”
Humphrey misplaced in an in depth election to Richard Nixon, who stated it was “time for a change” and despatched canine whistles to these he referred to as “the silent majority.”
So cease this joyful warrior nonsense. Be taught from the previous. You need to win? It’s a slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners marketing campaign. In any other case, on Nov. 6, you can be giving a tearful concession speech.
