Quick Take: October Non-Surprises

The late hits tell you more about Harris than Trump

“My values? Whatever they are, they haven’t changed…”

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With Election Day less than two weeks away, the Harris campaign, the Left and their media lapdogs are throwing garbage and leftovers against the wall in hopes that something, anything, will stick to Donald Trump.

But it hardly qualifies as a surprise—in October or any month— that Trump’s one-time presidential chief of staff hates his former boss. John Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, opines that his former boss is an “authentic fascist.” Naturally, he was not called upon for a definition of authentic fascism. Anyhow, this is just an old story recycled. It’s long been known what Kelly thinks of Trump—and vice versa.

Then there’s the charge that the Ogre Trump disrespected a deceased member of the US military, Vanessa Guillen, who happened to be female and a Mexican-American. This supposed bombshell was dropped by The Atlantic, whose story was based on a single anonymous source. That’s what’s passes for responsible journalism nowadays. Anyhow, Vanessa’s sister and the family’s lawyer have denied the story, saying that Trump was nothing but sympathetic and gracious. Who are you going to believe?

And this morning, splashed all over The Drudge Report, there’s a story involving Trump, the late, unlamented Jeffery Epstein, and some model that the former president is alleged to have “groped”—thirty-one years ago, in 1993. What a coincidence that the woman in question, Stacey Williams, has just now gotten around to sharing her tale of woe—with the assistance of a group called Survivors for Kamala, whose membership includes Ashley Judd and Anita Hill. And what a coincidence that in 2008, Williams worked for a group called Cleantech & Green Business for Obama. Anyhow, as with Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, no real evidence supports Williams’ charge. We’re just supposed to “believe women.”

When you put all this crap together with Kamala Harris’s consistent inability to connect with people and her increasingly hysterical denunciations of Trump, the picture come into focus. Harris & Co. realize that her campaign has stalled out, and they don’t know what to do.

The truth is that Kamala Harris just doesn’t pack the gear. She’s a nonperforming asset. She doesn’t have a clue. Just about any other presidentially plausible Democrat would be well ahead of Donald Trump by this stage of the campaign. But Harris? She’s losing ground. Not much ground, to be sure—but there’s a detectable trace of 2016 in the air.

You may remember what happened in 2016. Back then I was convinced that Hillary Clinton would beat The Donald. I simply could not take in the idea, the possibility, of President Trump. But in the last three weeks of the campaign, I began to get a sense that Trump was closing the gap. On Election Night I turned in early, still convinced that Clinton would win, but also thinking that the outcome would be somewhat closer than many people expected.

And on the morrow, I awoke to the astonishing news that Donald J. Trump had been elected President of the United States.

Kamala Harris’s two recent media outings—an NBC interview with Hallie Jackson and a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper—showed yet again that she’s a vessel empty of everything save for a clutch of memorized talking points. And now that the politics of joy has faded away, that’s all she’s got. Meanwhile, Trump is more popular with the American people than he’s ever been—a popularity that’s based on the American people’s evaluation of Trump versus Harris.

I make no prediction. Despite her obvious unfitness for the presidency, Harris may yet prevail. She has a billion dollars to spend, after all. But Trump has clearly moved into the lead, and it’s a bit late in the game for his deeply mediocre opponent to strike a commanding presidential pose, even if she could. But Kamala Harris simply hasn’t got it in her. She was widely regarded as a dud until to the momentary relief of the Left, Biden’s decline thrust her into the spotlight, and now she’s back to being a dud. That’s who the comrades hail as the dauntless defender of “our democracy”: a woman who reminds one of nothing so much as HAL 9000 after his nervous breakdown.

“Dave, I’m afraid…”