Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris celebrate after Biden accepted the presidential nomination during the 4th and final night of the Democratic National Convention, as participants from across the country are hosted over video links from the originally planned site of the convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 20, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Thaddeus G. McCotter, American Greatness: The Gaslight Election Won’t Work
Whatever they claim, one electoral maxim is beginning to bite the Democrats in their proverbial nether regions: voters want to vote for something.
I recently chatted with a veteran political observer who asked my opinion on a matter confounding him. Apparently, this observer had conversed with an equally politically savvy person, and the pair had shared a puzzlement over the dearth of audiences at former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign appearances. They were further befuddled by the media treating this as if it were perfectly normal. Ultimately, both deemed the 2020 presidential election the oddest not only in their lifetimes, but in all of American history. They felt something was missing, but couldn’t divine what.
I opined that the Democrats are running a “gaslight election.” What was missing from the Democratic Party was a real candidate and issues. In the past, these have been requisite for waging a campaign for the White House. Today, though, the Democrats, quite deliberately, have turned the 2020 presidential election from a contest into a referendum.
This explains the Democratic Party power brokers’ selection of Biden to serve as a “safe” face for the party, one that needs to do little more than read platitudes from his teleprompter.
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WNU Editor: The last time that I saw a US Presidential election like this one where one of the candidates decided to limit his campaign was Senator John McCain in 2008 when he suspended his campaign for a period of time due to the financial crisis. That decision did not go well for him. It killed his momentum and it shifted the spotlight to then Senator Obama. Will the same happen in this election? In a normal election this will not work and Biden will lose, but this is not a normal election. The pandemic has changed the dynamics on the ground, and I suspect how people are voting (i.e. mail ballots, advance polls, etc.). As for the above post, I think the author is onto something. What has strike me about this campaign is the intense Democrat focus on President Trump. More specifically, focusing their campaign to convince voters who do not like President Trump personally to vote for their candidate. And I think this strategy is working. Just this past weekend I talked separately to two of my American friends because I was curious to known what is their read of the election. My friends were non-comital, but in both cases their wives intervened. They regard President Trump as a horrible human being that disgusts them. And they are going to vote against him. Where did all of this hate come from? My friends are doing economically well in this pandemic, none of their family or friends have gotten sick, and many of President Trump's policies they agree with. But the hate is there.
