26.10.20

BET ON EMERGENCE.

Conservative Treehouse sees more than people out having fun in those Trump boat (and motorcycle and pickup truck and farm tractor) parades.  It's Militant Normals flipping off the palace guard media.
A combination of what I would call “old school” activism is taking place everywhere.  Car parades, boat parades, marches, rallies and massive swarms of American MAGA supporters are literally flooding the political space in a scale that makes it impossible to ignore.
There are highlight reels from several such events at the link.
The MAGA rallies, parades and grassroots events are breaking out independent of each-other and literally happening all over the place on any given day.  Miles and miles of cars with Trump flags… same with boats… and sometimes just marches in the street where thousands of people just gather and walk with American flags, Trump banners, and other gear.

To make the marches even more effective a really smart organic approach has started and we now see Trump rallies and marches targeted to the exact event venues where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are showing up.
None of the self-organized parades, or crowds at the rallies, or the conduct of the president himself at the rallies, give the impression of people who know they are losing and simply going through the motions to beat the point spread.
The American people are all-in, right now when it matters most; the Monster Vote is also clearly evident.   Spontaneous acts of patriotism are now considered representative of the counter-culture; people of all colors, races, creeds and orientations are united under the Red, White and Blue MAGA banner; and all of this was initiated organically by an American President who just transparently loves this country.
Byron York is also seeing it.  In Pennsylvania, the Trump Organization isn't doing the organizing.
If Trump wins Pennsylvania -- and that would mean he'd have a good chance at winning a second term -- he might well owe his victory to his grassroots supporters' work on the road. Jumping in their cars and trucks and inviting others to come along has heightened the enthusiasm in oil and gas country. Look for them to keep driving all the way to election day.
The palace guard at CNN have (predictably) a different perspective.  There's no link to a clip at their site; but on Sunday evening their news division visited a motorcycle parade in California in order to make the points that there were relatively few women along for the ride and that the boat and motorcycle parades were people with disposable income showing off their wealth.  Whatever.

Let's suppose that the prognosticators and fact checkers are right, and the enthusiastic crowds will be disappointed next week, or whenever the results are tabulated.  They're unlikely to just accept their punishment and go meekly to their rooms.  "Trump could be crude, even at times bullying and profane. But much of his braggadocio and vulgarity were designed as chemotherapy to kill the cancer of the administrative state and the lock-hold on permanent government by the revolving-door, bipartisan coastal elite."  As a Biden presidency is not going to be a restoration of that bipartisan elite, will the Never Trumpers and the Democrat Leadership Council types make common cause against the Third World Caucus; and if so, will the Deplorables and Chumps find more in common with the Acela class, or will an unusual alliance of Trump voters and Third World Caucus types be the result?  "Trump hit on a great truth that no leader can write off his country’s vast industrial interior, destroy his nation’s borders, willingly cede global leadership to a Communist dictatorship, manipulate intelligence agencies to destroy political opponents, prefer to manage decline rather than to seek renewal, and meanwhile, as he did all that, call himself moral and presidential."

That story cannot be written until after the votes are tallied and the recriminations begin within both major parties.

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