Sunday Thoughts May 12, 2024

The promised wild summer has started as the news is almost all about Trump and the panic the worst people experience when they think about Trump. That last part promises to become more acute as the Trump rallies get going this summer. Trump managed to pull an estimated eighty thousand people to a rally in Wildwood New Jersey. A good example is this story about the rally, which quickly becomes typical kook lunacy about the show trial in New York.

Panic is warranted. New Jersey is a plus-15 Democrat state. That means statewide, Democrats win the state by fifteen points. Biden won the state 57-41 in 2020. In 2016 Clinton won the state by fifteen and in 2008 Obama won by eighteen points. For Trump to draw that sort of crowd in a solidly Democrat state suggests at the minimum, the anti-kook forces are more intense now. The non-kook population is getting tired of the kooks.

The speech itself had an interesting tone. Someone on Twitter compared it to McCarthy’s Wheeling speech, in which McCarthy warned at a Lincoln Day event that “we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.” This was the speech where he held up papers claiming to have a list of “homegrown traitors” and the ADL assumed he meant them. Trump talked about subversives who are destroying the country from within.

Trump will never win New Jersey, but what this event suggests is there a crusader tone to this election that was absent in the last one and only a flicker in 2016. People voted Trump in 2016, in part, to send a message, but this time people seem to sense that he is leading a holy crusade. The regime is beyond repair, so the time for warnings has passed. That is a different thing entirely from what drove people to vote Trump in 2016 and 2020.

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