TOO BIG TO RIG?

Roger "Tenured Radicals" Kimball sees Donald Trump taking his campaign into unfavorable territory and offers a prediction.

Future historians, psephologists, and political analysts, searching for the day and time that Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign imploded beyond recovery, are likely to settle on Thursday May 23, 2024, at approximately 7 p.m. It was then that Trump’s surprising rally in Crotona Park in the South Bronx really got underway. I didn’t hear any actual bells tolling, but if you listened carefully you could discern the mournful obligato that signaled the end of Joe Biden’s hopes in New York — and therefore the country.

We'll see.  It's true that 44 years ago the Smart People didn't have much regard for Ronald Reagan.

No Republican has taken New York since Ronald Reagan’s great landslide in 1984. Why then would Trump waste time coming to the South Bronx?

And Ronald Reagan visited the South Bronx in 1980, but not because he had to be in court on Manhattan the next day.  The objective conditions in New York were much worse then.  Let us be grateful that so far the Jarrett regency hasn't built back the objective conditions of the Carter years and called that "better".  What they have done is bad enough.

One brilliant moment occurred when Trump called former City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr., a black Puerto Rican Democrat, up to the stage. In broken but heartfelt English, Diaz enthusiastically endorsed Trump for president. I didn’t note the exact time, but I’d wager that was the moment that Trump sealed the deal for New York for 2024.

It was a masterly speech. Trump hit all the sore spots: the migrant crime wave, the transsexual insanity, Biden’s economic chaos, the insecurity of American elections. In what is sure to be a major new slogan, Trump reminded the crowd that his victory in 2024 must be “too big to rig.”

It's still too soon to venture predictions, and already the regency's amen corner is chastising Normals for being so ungrateful about those record high stock market indices and those low unemployment rates.  It's what that sort of cheerleading doesn't mention, the cultural issues, the lousy schools, that might decide the election.