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Some very interesting and astute observations from conservative pundit and former Weekly Standard editor Jonathan Last:
Donald Trump Just Shat Himself
Kamala Harris put on a display of the kind of strength he understands.
Jonathan V. Last
Oct 30, 2024
1. The Law of the Jungle
In the Netflix docuseries Mr. McMahon, Vince McMahon says precisely one true thing. It’s the end of the second episode and McMahon tells the filmmakers, “I believe in the law of the jungle.”
That’s the purest possible distillation of McMahon’s worldview which is, not coincidentally, Donald Trump’s worldview.
The law of the jungle: The strong prey on the weak. You take whatever you can get away with. “Honor” and “morals” are meaningless constructs designed for suckers. There are no rules except survival.
On Sunday, Trump staged what he believed would be a show of force at Madison Square Garden. He thought that, by packing 20,000 of his people into the media capital of the world, he would demonstrate his power.
Last night, Kamala Harris brought 75,000 people onto the same spot where Trump launched his insurrection.
This is the kind of power Trump understands. And I suspect that when he saw her crowd he lost his shit.
(Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
This is the kind of power Trump respects. It’s also the kind of power that he fears.
As he should.
Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally brought 20,000 mostly middle-class white guys together. The diversity of this group ran the gamut from white dudes who wear Polo to white dudes who wear Salt Life.
And that’s fine. There’s a lot of white dudes in America.
But when you look at shots of the 75,000 who came out for Harris, you see a very different demographic mix. Lots of women. Lots of black people. A pretty wide range of ages.
Trump does not care about this diversity as a moral matter. But you can be sure he cares about it as a practical matter.
When we talk about Harris having an advantage with women voters, what we mean is this: In 2020, 82.2 million women voted—against just 72.5 million men. This was not a one-off. Women have voted at a meaningfully higher rate than men in every presidential election since 1980.
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/voters/gender-differences-voter-turnout#GGN
Donald Trump Just Shat Himself
Kamala Harris put on a display of the kind of strength he understands.
Jonathan V. Last
Oct 30, 2024
1. The Law of the Jungle
In the Netflix docuseries Mr. McMahon, Vince McMahon says precisely one true thing. It’s the end of the second episode and McMahon tells the filmmakers, “I believe in the law of the jungle.”That’s the purest possible distillation of McMahon’s worldview which is, not coincidentally, Donald Trump’s worldview.
The law of the jungle: The strong prey on the weak. You take whatever you can get away with. “Honor” and “morals” are meaningless constructs designed for suckers. There are no rules except survival.
On Sunday, Trump staged what he believed would be a show of force at Madison Square Garden. He thought that, by packing 20,000 of his people into the media capital of the world, he would demonstrate his power.
Last night, Kamala Harris brought 75,000 people onto the same spot where Trump launched his insurrection.
This is the kind of power Trump understands. And I suspect that when he saw her crowd he lost his shit.
(Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
This is the kind of power Trump respects. It’s also the kind of power that he fears.
As he should.
Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally brought 20,000 mostly middle-class white guys together. The diversity of this group ran the gamut from white dudes who wear Polo to white dudes who wear Salt Life.
And that’s fine. There’s a lot of white dudes in America.
But when you look at shots of the 75,000 who came out for Harris, you see a very different demographic mix. Lots of women. Lots of black people. A pretty wide range of ages.
Trump does not care about this diversity as a moral matter. But you can be sure he cares about it as a practical matter.
When we talk about Harris having an advantage with women voters, what we mean is this: In 2020, 82.2 million women voted—against just 72.5 million men. This was not a one-off. Women have voted at a meaningfully higher rate than men in every presidential election since 1980.
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/voters/gender-differences-voter-turnout#GGN
