Today we vote what Trump's fate could be in case of defeat (no, he will not return to the real estate world)
American TV anchors are forced to repeat that the outgoing president cannot do the things he says; proclaim himself the winner at the beginning of the test, fire Anthony Fauci, find a vaccine for the China virus. From New York to Los Angeles, shop windows with nailed wooden planks are increasing in city centers, because clashes and looting are feared
The caravans of extreme Trumpians
It is perhaps the largest mass voting intimidation movement in a nearly democratic country. It is certainly the most spectacular, and the most culturally devastating. They are the Trump Train or Trump Caravan, those SUV caravans that run on the highways, with men with rifles and baseball caps inside and grimly assertive women. Their wickedness, their acting as fascist squads are ruining for many the love for westerns and for the complete filmography of Sam Peckimpah (Convoy-Asphalt Trench comes to mind; but there the Sheriff Ernest Borgnine was very Trumpian; truck was driven by Kris Kristofferson who by comparison looked like a member of the trade union left).
Trump Caravans are formed in poised states, circling polling stations to discourage Democratic voters, black and otherwise. Other Trumpian motorists show up in big cities, challenging citizenship that votes democratic, and ridicule. "Screaming they want to Keep Rodeo Drive and Beverly Hills Great (from the Trumpian slogan Keep America Great, ed), they surrounded and yelled racist slurs at my driver in Lyft because she is black," tweeted Eric Ortner, formerly of the White House of Barack Obama.
After the success of the highway assault on Kamala Harris' bus in Texas, praised by Trump and on which the FBI has opened an investigation, over the weekend there have been many caravans, from Massachusetts to California. The extreme Trumpians have blocked the highway between New Jersey and New York (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the Bronx, called it "a rear-end collision of idiots"). They arrived in Richmond, Virginia, shot from one car, sprayed stinging spray on a passing woman from another. He's fared worse in Forth Worth. They had arrived - escorted by the police - to a polling station with an African American majority. The majority of African Americans lining up at the polling station didn't like it. They surrounded them, and chased them with evident satisfaction (the video is viral).
Yesterday another group, fearing the end of the Trumpians of Fort Worth, invited the Proud Boys, from the well-known militia, to the caravan. He did so with regular communication to the Montgomery County Sheriff, in the most important poised state of all, Pennsylvania.
A dystopian day with the Pennsylvania nightmare
Over three million postal cards have arrived in Pennsylvania. The counting will begin after the votes in person, it could take days, there will be disputes and appeals. If Donald Trump or Joe Biden are equal, Pennsylvania will be decisive. For this reason, in order not to suffer for days, many hope for the states that count the postal cards as they arrive. In a miracle in Florida or North Carolina, a net result for Biden. But few can believe it, on the most anxious electoral eve ever. Non-Fox TV anchors are forced to repeat that Trump cannot do the things he says; proclaim himself the winner at the beginning of the test, fire Anthony Fauci, find a vaccine for the China virus. From New York to Los Angeles, shop windows with nailed wooden planks are increasing in the city centers, because fights and looting are feared. In Washington, they mounted a "non-scalable" metal fence around the White House, Trump's last wall, the one he completed. Then there are the caravans for Trump, and then of course, the pandemic.
Trump's fate according to experts
If he loses, “Donald won't bear the narcissistic wound of defeat. He can not. In your father's family a defeat was a death sentence. ' This is the opinion of his niece Mary, a clinical psychologist. Others less profound point out that, in addition to crying in the bedroom, Trump is unleashing the Honest Election Project, a darkly funded group that "fights election fraud" in all states where there will be something contestable. And that his strong point is never admitting defeats. Not when he went bankrupt - six times - not if he lost the presidency of the United States.
But now we wonder what he will do, what will happen to him. On the New Yorker, Jane Mayer spoke to top Trumpologists, who make various assumptions. It seems unlikely that you will return to real estate. It has too many hundreds of millions in debt and its hotels and resorts have collapsed due to Covid. Even Deutsche Bank, according to the New Yorker, no longer wants to finance it. He could, they speculate, move to Mar-a-Lago and from Florida to replace the ailing Rush Limbaugh on his right-wing radio show. It would be a ready-made daily pulpit, it is the reference program for white males who love it; but there are those who say that Trump is too lazy for three hours of live broadcast every day. There is talk of a Trump TV to the right of Fox News to be launched after the elections. But now it's a risk, when they were on TV at the same time, Trump had less audience than Biden (of Biden). His former colleague banker Anthony Scaramucci says he could go to Florida and continue tapping oligarchs in various countries. And that "will continue to cause trouble."
The fate of Trump, the doubts of the Democrats
If Biden wins, if there is a majority in the Senate and the House, the Democrats will have to choose. If to start a series of investigations on Trump, at the risk of spending too much time on it and not dealing, for example, with health insurance, and to divide Americans even more. Or whether to secretly hope that Trump will forgive himself before January. Or step down and get Mike Pence to forgive you. Or that you unleash a civil war in order to be able to negotiate an urban and orbi immunity, even from the Manhattan District Attorney.
The presidents of some House committees want to continue to investigate. The Democrats closest to Biden are more than cautious, he presented himself throughout the campaign as the candidate who wanted to unite a divided country. Nancy Pelosi does not speak for now. But the Chamber, they say, could decide on a case-by-case basis. Meanwhile, many Democrats propose to approve laws on presidential conflicts of interest immediately, customs, from Trump onwards, cannot be considered binding.
Lindsey and the women
Two days after a vote that decides her political life, Lindsey Graham has adopted a very popular point of view. Addressing the young women, she said: "I want every young woman to know, there is a place for you in America if you are for life, if you are religious and if you follow the traditional family structure. If so, you can go wherever you want, miss. ' Graham, chairman of the Senate Justice Committee, crucial in the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, spoke perhaps in the wake of ultra-share success. Or maybe, after the death of John McCain to whom he was very devoted, Graham is free and manages to express misogyny and racism (long ago he said that a black can move freely in South Carolina, as long as he is conservative). In the latest polls, Graham led 46 to 44 over African American Democrat Jaime Harrison, who knows if any Republican will vote for him today.
Florida Men, the bated breath
The polling stations close at 7 pm, one in the morning Italian time, with a couple of districts closing an hour later. Trump and Biden go head to head. There are old Republicans worried about Covid who voted for Biden and young basic Hispanic men who like Trump (he is also strong among Haitians, despite being mostly black, despite Trump having called Haiti a shithole, a shit place; like many others things in this election campaign).
