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The day Kamala Harris became president


Of course, we were all joking that Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally yesterday was a replay of the 1939 Bund rally in the same arena. He was going to finish what Charles Lindbergh began. Finally, America's crime of siding against the Nazis would be rectified!

What I was really thinking was this: Trump's rallies have fallen off the cliff long ago. What could he do that could be worse and not electorally destructive?

Well. How about the warm-up "comedian" comparing a part of the United States to a massive, floating garbage pile? Or that the residents of that part of the United States—surprise, they speak Spanish there—were in effect raping this country?

How about calling Hillary Clinton a "son of a bitch"? Or calling Doug Emhoff a "fake Jew"?

Before Trump even took the stage, the event was a disaster. Facing increasingly certain defeat, Trump and company decided to unleash the furious id of the MAGA movement—which is really nothing but the still-beating corpse of Confederate treason—in one, final glorious explosion.

Everyone involved with this rally decided that if they were going to be called Nazis anyway, that they may as well play the part.

Well, he may have gotten the accolades of the bridge-and-tunnel set, but this may prove to be the most egregious case of shooting yourself in the foot politically. Just a sampling for Twitter:
Now, I'm not surprised that the rally took this turn. But, politically it is the most insane thing for Trump to have done with barely a week left in a campaign which he must win if he's to avoid the certainty of prison. You'd think that someone with an ounce of self-preservation would have toned down the rhetoric.

However, at this point I think Trump is too far-gone to care much. Far-gone both in the knowledge that his hopes of victory are slipping away, while also in the sense that his mind is well on its way to dementia. He is all id at this point, and if his followers kill a few of his enemies, he'll be just fine with that and count it a victory against a world which rejects and despises him.

But let us not gloss over the real story: Kamala Harris became president yesterday. While Trump's mouthpieces were denigrating Puerto Ricans, Vice President Harris was doing this:



Same community, a world's difference in terms of respect and consideration. Mrs. Harris doesn't see these constituents as vermin, as rapists, as a poison in the blood. They're mothers and fathers, teachers and delivery persons, neighbors and friends. Americans.

That kind of thing may seem abstract. But Donald Trump made it all-too concrete. By embracing the traitors of our past, he has fully aligned himself with treason. His Goebbels, Stephen Miller, railed that "America is for Americans." The problem is that neither he, his idol, or any of those in this MAGA movement are worthy of being called "Americans". Rather than welcoming immigrants, they see them as an invasion, and will go to any lengths to subvert the Republic if they can't be kept out. Stephen Miller wouldn't exist if this country hadn't accepted his great-grandparents fleeing a Russian pogrom. 

As Vice President Harris says, voters are tired of the appeal to our worst instincts. Yesterday highlighted the differences between her and Trump in the most glaring of ways. We have this. 
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