We’re going to Make America Great Again. Again.
Remember that bit in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray is trying to use his position of being stuck reliving the same day over and over again to construct the perfect date, and he gets pretty close. He and his chosen date have this almost perfect moment…
…then, the next go through the cycle, he tries to do the same thing again, and it’s all wrong. Everything is stilted and forced and it doesn’t work. He tries too hard, grasps too tight.
That was how it felt watching the polls into the early hours of the morning – from both sides.
I’ll be honest here – waking up after Polling Day 2016 to see Clinton had lost is a great memory. I was never a Trump believer, but Clinton was unequivocally worse – than almost anything you can name – and to see the smugness of certain victory detonate into an implosion of stammering bitterness was…funny. And a relief. And funny.
A lot of people thought so.
I get the impression the organizers of (S)election 2024 are well aware of that & were trying to recreate that energy, Groundhog Day fashion.
But of course they can’t. Because this isn’t 2016. And Harris isn’t Clinton, and Trump isn’t even Trump, as he seemed to be then. Then at least there was some wild card elements to his game, now we know who he is.
2016 at least had the appearance of a genuine moment. Our astonishment at least was real. But in 2024 even that much reality has gone. And it feels like everyone knows it....<<<Read More>>>...
