Ugh.
Like everyone, I am still wondering what the US presidential election is going to look like once the dust settles.
Trump has done everything possible to lose, and is still maintaining about the same popularity he has always enjoyed. Clinton has basically done nothing to win, and is still hanging on to a slim lead.
While the country is basically on the brink of narrowly rejecting an egomaniac and fascist as leader, one has to wonder what message this is going to send to the GOP. No doubt there are many who will think that the problem lies in Trump's not being right enough. And these will be the loudest and most insistent voices representing conservatism in the next four years. Anything but a wholesale rejection of everything Trump has to offer still suggests to me a looming crisis in the western world. We are on honeymoon here in Canada while our Ken-doll Prime Minister poses for selfies, tries on different clothes, and searches for a good hairstyle while various media outlets, in a strange perversion of the Canadian Content legislation, try desperately to get us all to fall in love with his wife. I don't know what's going to happen next: if the Grits keep sliding gradually into reverse on the election reform thing, then we will probably be stuck with them until the 2030s. This might not be so bad, with Conservative leadership hopeful and quondam Labour Minister Kellie Leitch looking to run on an essentially Trump-style platform (though with a softer stance on immigration).
Anyway, this is kind of a pointless ramble, other than to say I just watched a Trump ad which claims that Hillary Clinton will derail Washington through catering to "special interests." Donald Trump, of course, represents one of the smallest minorities in the world and also enjoys the benefits of just about any legislation -- tax, business, public opinion -- imaginable. Not to get too far down the rabbit hole of politicizing the female body, but he has basically got away with denying the very existence of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Yet, somehow, he is "the public": he is just like you.
Trump has done everything possible to lose, and is still maintaining about the same popularity he has always enjoyed. Clinton has basically done nothing to win, and is still hanging on to a slim lead.
While the country is basically on the brink of narrowly rejecting an egomaniac and fascist as leader, one has to wonder what message this is going to send to the GOP. No doubt there are many who will think that the problem lies in Trump's not being right enough. And these will be the loudest and most insistent voices representing conservatism in the next four years. Anything but a wholesale rejection of everything Trump has to offer still suggests to me a looming crisis in the western world. We are on honeymoon here in Canada while our Ken-doll Prime Minister poses for selfies, tries on different clothes, and searches for a good hairstyle while various media outlets, in a strange perversion of the Canadian Content legislation, try desperately to get us all to fall in love with his wife. I don't know what's going to happen next: if the Grits keep sliding gradually into reverse on the election reform thing, then we will probably be stuck with them until the 2030s. This might not be so bad, with Conservative leadership hopeful and quondam Labour Minister Kellie Leitch looking to run on an essentially Trump-style platform (though with a softer stance on immigration).
Anyway, this is kind of a pointless ramble, other than to say I just watched a Trump ad which claims that Hillary Clinton will derail Washington through catering to "special interests." Donald Trump, of course, represents one of the smallest minorities in the world and also enjoys the benefits of just about any legislation -- tax, business, public opinion -- imaginable. Not to get too far down the rabbit hole of politicizing the female body, but he has basically got away with denying the very existence of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Yet, somehow, he is "the public": he is just like you.