This is a recount of the naughty adventures of the Cool Protestors and how that could bring a Trump presidency. If you are Muslim or Mexican, or really care about them, sad day for you. But isn't that a small price to pay to preserve the cool little dance of the Cool Protestors?
Obviously, I have left the Part 2 for soon after November 2nd.
All this time the Cool Protestors have conquered precious victories, at least in their mind. While segregation has come back through the back door of income inequality, Section V of the Voting Rights Act has been repealed by the Supreme Court, regulations from the New Deal have been rolled back instead of updated, and the political debate has turned into the ridiculous quarrel of a reality-TV show, not to mention the degradation of the surveillance capabilities of government agencies like the IRS, SEC, EPA and ATF through budget strangulation, the deterioration of the environment as it reaches a point of no-return, and immigration entering into a dark night marked by the resentment against globalization, etc., etc., etc. But the naughty Cool Protestors have claimed repeatedly victory because they have prevailed against the Confederate flag, prevented speakers they considered not cool (like Bill Maher) from speaking at Universities, forced a couple of bureaucrats to apologize for having made commentaries that were not cool enough, changed the name of some building, forced a Gay Pride parade in Canada to be more racially diverse and, we should not forget that, they have also made a cute wall of cloth to “wall the hate of Donald Trump!” Isn't that adorable?
In my previous entries I have been very hard with these childish teenagers (and not so-teenagers) who live in a world in which the Chicago protests of 1968 led to the defeat of Nixon and where the Southern Strategy never existed because people always get informed about the issues, reject the information noise, and vote their interest. So, with the record so briefly described in the previous paragraph, could it surprise anybody that they pushed Sanders to spend his political capital in the “most progressive Democratic platform of the last decades.” Is the platform binding? Of course, not. But for the Cool Protestors, that is a victory, a good way to spend Sanders's political capital (even though they jumped to the movement as it was growing, they were not there at the beginning, and were the principal culprits of creating the noise that harmed the growth. I am not going to repeat myself here about this point). Of course, that's the least Sanders could do after disappointing the Cool Protestors, who had already decided that Sanders had to fall for their naughty plan. And what was the naughty plan? Forcing Sanders, as if he were their defenseless Grandpa instead of the leader of his movement, to run with Jill Stein. They dreamed of Sanders rushing with them to infiltrate Trump's rallies and to become clowns in that monster's show. They dreamed of Sanders joining Stein in her customary attempts at breaking the security line the day of the next presidential debate because everybody know that if you break the line, the organizers will automatically be forced to add another podium for you. They dreamed of seeing both Sanders and Stein arrested and then jumping with joy as they showed that they have the latest app in their smartphone, what proves how cool they are.
And even though I cannot say what happened behind the curtains, whether Sanders pushed for a Warren vice presidency or not, I can say that the nomination of Tim Kaine may be all Trump needs to win. I have nothing against Tim Kaine but, had been Kasich or Bush the Republican nominee, you might say that I am an alarmist. But being Trump, I am not. Instead of demanding that Clinton adopted his proposals to gain the support of his followers (which was ridiculous not only because his followers do not trust her but also because, had that been possible, that would have turned Sanders into irrelevancy), he should have convoked his followers to support Clinton on the condition of Warren being picked as vice president (I am not going to repeat myself here about the reasons why I believe Warren could have made all the difference to stop Trump). Yet, surrounded by Cool Protestors as he was (and being too weak to get rid of them), Sanders spent his capital in the platform instead. And whatever political capital he got for us, will disappear in the same black hole where Occupy's disappeared after it also wasted its momentum under the firm but cool hand of the Cool Protestors.
Clinton is a bad candidate. Whatever charge Trump and other surrogates throw at her, real or imaginary, stick. She looks and sounds scripted and rehearsed while Trump is a consummated actor (What con-man isn't?). And Trump can always count with the noise created by the Cool Protestors to deviate the attention from what could really harm him: The little journalistic work (like David Cay Johnston's) that can expose him as a con man whose promises you cannot trust). But adds won’t make the trick. Who makes the charge is important. And that's why Warren was indispensable as part of the ticket. On the other hand, Sanders and Warren, as surrogates will not have the privileged platform of attack they would have had had Warren been the vice presidential pick.
And don't come to me with the idiotic arguments I have heard everywhere. There is the argument about the color. A Hispanic would have put color in the ticket and annoyed Trump. The Cool Protestors see here the vice presidential selection as a prank to make Trump angry. Are they not cool? Actually Trump has made enough to bring Hispanic votes to the Democratic ticket. This election Hispanic surrogates would have been enough. More, these are the same idiots who, as exposed by the arts of a hacker, were gathering damaging information about Trump to expose him as the “misogynist in chief.” Because, when you are in a swing state affected by trade policies (actually investment protection policies disguised as trade) and a charlatan (Trump) offers you impossible promises that, when they are revealed as impossible, will supposedly, magically be of cost only to Muslims and Mexicans, the thing that can change your mind and reject the bigot is knowing that cool frat boys have called him “misogynist in chief.” That, and the little dance of the Cool Protestors.
Then there is that other idiotic argument about the vice president overshadowing the candidate. When you have a candidate that looks so rehearsed and insincere as Clinton and, on the other side, a consummated actor, the best you can wish is that a strong vice presidential candidate like Warren overshadows your presidential candidate, specially when Warren has been so effective at taking Trump out of his game, at hurting him. If, on top of that, in an election like this, you bring a boring vice presidential candidate like Kaine, you will only make more evident Trump's showbiz superb skills (in opposition to Clinton's poor ones).
Thus, I am not surprised that, after all the money Clinton has spent characterizing Trump, and the almost no money Trump so far has spent on Clinton, the difference between them is of 3 only points, at best. I can't foresee the future, of course, but projecting what I can see now, we are already part of a disaster in the making. But you could say that even if Trump wins, he won't have Congress to pass his insane agenda. Maybe even better for him. That will give him an excuse. And he still have plenty of powers in the Executive to punish those who are going to be the scapegoats of his administration: Muslims and Mexicans. But, isn't that a small price to pay to have the Cool Protestors happily dancing their little dance?