It's nice to see normal regular everyday people at an American convention again. Even the speakers are just like regular folk, not weird.
Instead of a gaudy Mar-a-Lago Club side-show, happy Democrats were seen being inspired to fight for fundamental freedoms and to stop once-and-for-all the cancer of Trumpism and Neo-Fascism. What kind of tribute will the RNC give Daffy Duck in 2028 after he's cost them elections in 2020, 2022 and 2024?
Wait a minute. Maybe the MAGA people are stupid entranced enough to give him another run in 2028.
Yes, I too am very happy with this convention. It is being run very well. I like Michele Obama's comment that next year, Trump will be starting on his black job. But many speakers last night were good. Senator Tammy Duckworth gave a very short speech that was absolute dynamite. If you missed it, look it up on Youtube.
if Trump loses in 2024, they will not run with him again, even if he avoids prison. They will drop him like a hot potatoe. Instead they will likely look for another dictator want-to-be. Someone younger without all the negative baggage that Trump has.
The only question is, if Trump loses a lot, and drags down a lot of other Republican candidates with him, will they try this again? Maybe not, to avoid another disaster. On the other hand, the demographics of America is continuing to change, people of just European descent will continue dropping. The allure of win once, win forever, is still very strong.
A difficulty is that there is not going to be just one dictator want-to-be.There will be many who want that job. They will have to signal to MAGA with coded talk (good people on both sides) that they are the guy. As one surges ahead, the others will become even more explicit, to try to get the MAGA crowd behind them They will not be able to catch us by surprise like they did in 2016 and (at least for me) in 2020.
They have found that for each day a door knocker works, visiting residences with a Democratic voter, they get an estimated extra 5 Democratic voters to vote who would not have voted otherwise. These estimates are based on statistics comparing voter turn out in neighborhoods that had door knockers compared to those that did not. I live in Washington state but I am staying in Pennsylvania for the last 4 weeks before November 5 to knock on doors all day, six days a week, to get fellow Democrats to vote. There are thousands of volunteers who will travel to swing states to go knock on doors. I have been in zoom meetings with 30 of them at a time. We are coming. Some have already started.
If MAGA tries again in 2028, thousands of us will come back again and knock on doors in swing states, setting them up for another massive failure. We will have many more volunteers in 2028 than even 2024, if they dare try again. I say to MAGA, "Bring it on."