07-10-2019, 06:58 AM
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The telling point: Donald Trump cannot crack 41% against someone whom few Americans know. Donald Trump is the highest-profile American now, except perhaps for Barack Obama. Pit him against a high-profile athlete, let us say Houston Astros' pitcher Justin Verlander (who is an unlikely opponent -- Verlander's father-in-law is a high-profile Republican politician, and he has a gigantic contract to throw a baseball)... and the future Hall of Fame pitcher Verlander wins decisively against Trump.
What is so significant about the 41%? That is what he gets against practically anyone against whom he polls. That is also the share of the vote that Jimmy Carter got in 1980.
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I write this before I see any polls that come out after the exposure of President Trump's pervert buddy Jeffrey Epstein, whose private jet I call sarcastically the "Lolita Express". If you do not understand the reference, it is to the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita in which a twelve-year-old girl is the object of sexual obsession of a fifty-something creep. The Feds have found some interesting material in Jeffrey Epstein's mansion, including some apparently-illicit photos.
I am going to avoid telling whether the creepy Humbert Humbert gets Lolita, as saying so creates a spoiler. I expect the legal process to do its work in Jeffrey Epstein, and you will not need any novel to read the result.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.