The grand illusion
The Right is using billionaire-controlled corporate media to influence the November 5th elections through deceptive spin. It’s up to independent news media and news consumers to spin it back. Voters are more motivated by self-determination than doomsday panic.
For example, we can inform voters that the polls are being manipulated by the Right to give the illusion of “a close race,” while also pointing out that record-breaking democratic early voter turn-out and fundraising are the real indicators.
Likewise, pundits keep fretting about Trump “getting another term” implying he is still president. But four years ago, Trump lost to President Biden by over 7 million votes. It’s more accurate to say that another Trump presidency is a non-consecutive-term longshot. Former Trump staffer Omarosa of “The Apprentice” fame, who has endorsed Kamala Harris, pointed out that “Teflon Don” is a misnomer because he lost to Biden. See how easy that is?
Trump and his family have been using the fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy since before Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech. But pundits continue giving Trump more credit than he deserves. Like his sudden use of profanity describing VP Harris and President Biden. It’s more likely Trump saw the recent leak of Biden calling Trump, “A fucking liar” triggering his frontotemporal dementia to try to come off as bad-ass as Biden.
Sure, the GOP have adopted the KGB playbook tactics of normalizing corruption and breaking unwritten rules of decorum. But giving Trump more credit than he deserves by claiming he is using foul language as a way of reaching out to the “white underclass” (uneducated white working-class voters) doesn’t explain all the highly educated Republicans.
Trump is flailing. Last week a bizarre video of Trump dancing for 39-minutes at his rally went viral. He was probably trying to recreate the joy he saw at the Democratic convention and Harris rallies, but he is too inept to get his campaign to try to recreate that kind of energy, so he just bobs and weaves like a demented puppet. Trump is so obsessed with Kamala having worked at McDonald’s he staged fry cook stunt, coming off like a clown, Donald McDonald.
Even respected analysts are repeating the absurd warning that a vote for Trump is really a vote for J.D. Vance. But Trump’s bumbling running mate is the least popular vice-presidential candidate in history. No one is casting a vote for that guy, so why give him more power than he has? If the Right is working so hard to spin the election message, why help them?
If there is going to be any October surprise, it will likely be about Trump’s failing health, or another bombshell court ruling, such as the one against Elon Musk this weekend, that we barely heard about. Just like all the elections since November 8, 2016, this one will have some wild unexpected outcomes. So, let’s stay focused on our accomplishments, voter outreach, stopping illegal Republican election interference, and vote blue!
Chicago native Lorraine Evanoff earned her degree in French from DePaul University then became a Certified Financial Manager. She worked as a finance exec in film production for seven years in Paris, then in Silicon Valley during the dot-com era, and later for various Hollywood production companies, notably as CFO of National Lampoon. She is currently living in Los Angeles with her husband.