With the election only two weeks away, let’s stipulate the futility of any attempt by my humble column — or anyone else’s — to accomplish much in the way of changing voters’ minds. So-called independents and uncommitteds may waver until the moment they step into the voting booth, but most voters have made up their minds, and at this point few are likely to be changed by mere reasoning.
Predicting the election’s winner is equally futile. A quick search yields these descriptors: “toss-up,” “deadlocked,” “close,” “exceedingly close,” “roughly even,” “razor-thin.”
When all this uncertainty is coupled with the vagaries of the Electoral College, we’re left with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could become the 47th president of the United States. Hold that thought.
If Kamala Harris wins, we know, more or less, what will happen: business as usual. Despite Trump’s evidence-free assertions, Harris is not a Marxist or communist. She’s a conventional, left-of-center politician whose progressive leanings, such as they are, will be restrained by the checks and balances built into our system, as well as by the center of her own party.
