I suspect that Andy Kessler speaks for many in his column in the Wall Street Journal:
A friend told me, “I don’t think I can take another four years of Donald Trump clips on the ‘Today’ Show, with that whiny voice butchering the English language, complaining about what people think of him.” It’s hard to argue. On the flip side, I don’t think I can take another four years of performative hand-wringing, like Kamala Harris’s Columbus Day 2021 “shameful past” speech to the National Congress of American Indians: “Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations—perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease.” How uplifting.
Under Mr. Trump, expect me-me-me, mockery and misogyny. Under Ms. Harris, climate craziness, wokey woo-woo and pronoun patrols. I don’t like either scenario.
But he concludes on a sort of optimistic note:
Second-guessing will begin as soon as a winner is declared—hopefully before New Year’s Day. Meanwhile, we have checks and balances. So go ahead, hold your nose, pick your poison—our republic will survive. And then vote early, but please (especially in Chicago) not too often.
I suspect that just how bad the outcome is will largely depend on the House and Senate races.
If Trump wins and the Republicans hold the House and get a majority in the Senate, I suspect he’ll be able to secure more tax cuts but, since that appears to be the only thing on which Republicans can agree, that may be it. I doubt he’ll be able to pursue his enemies as his opponents keep warning us he will or that he’ll get much of what he’s run on during the campaign. Although I think we will see some deportations, I’m skeptical that we’ll see the “mass deportations” he’s spoken of.
If Harris wins and the Democrats take the House and hold the Senate, I suspect we’ll see the end of the filibuster as we’ve come to know it. Beyond that I have no idea what she’ll do. She’ll have a pretty free hand.
If Trump wins but the Democrats take both houses of the Congress, I expect a rapid impeachment and conviction but beyond that I have no idea what will happen. That will be blocked if the Republicans get a majority in the Senate but I expect a reenactment of Trump’s first term.
If Harris wins but the Republicans hold the House, I expect a replay of Trump’s first term with everybody changing roles. If Republicans also gain a majority in the Senate she could even be convicted.
Said another way I expect it to get pretty bad. I also will be surprised if we know who’s been elected before Christmas.
Harris is a nonentity. If she “wins” the election, we will be ruled by a faceless blob, the legendary old guy on a rocking chair on a porch in Missouri.
The real issues are the federal debt, the genocide in Palestine, the imminent WW III, and BRICS. Not a single word about any of them in the campaign. Our politics are confined to silliness and irrelevance. And our Masters like it that way.