Four-Year Perspective: Unbelievable

I was trying to think back to the weeks after Biden won in 2020, or January 2021 around the time of the inauguration (after January 6).

If you had told me that Trump would be the Republican candidate in the 2024 election because there were no consequences from any of his obvious misdeeds as president or on January 6, let alone the additional affronts of the documents case and the Supreme Court deciding he had bizarre levels of immunity... I think I would not have believed you.


Mitch McConnell holds maybe the biggest share of blame for not getting the insurrectionist impeached in the Senate. He could have done it, and we would all be safe from Trump ever being in office again.

I have mixed feelings about that outcome in another way, though, because it would have opened the possibility of some more-electable Republican winning the presidency, when I don't want any Republican elected, given the need for climate action and for this country generally to keep turning the corner that has begun under the Biden presidency.

I also find it hard to believe the story of what has gone right since January 2021 hasn't reached more people, resulting in support for the Biden/Harris agenda. It takes time to turn a large ship of state, and nothing is perfect, but economic growth, wage increases, and climate action have all been big wins. 

In contrast, we have a suicide-pact-party dedicated to convincing the public our country is garbage, buoyed by their captive media promoting their talking points. The independent media, unfortunately, are so committed to false equivalence that they can't manage to report which way is up. Or their owners have decided they'd prefer Trump.

Despite this, I think Harris is going to win next week, and the only question is whether the legal system will hold against another insurrection and the corrupted Republicans in the various state election roles and in the courts.

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Cartoon by the great Jen Sorensen.