Winning 270 Electors is the Answer

We've all grown accustomed to hearing politicians on the stump making rather exaggerated claims. Routinely, such assertions are about various threats to our security and way of life the speechmaker wants us to believe are dangerous and growing. Naturally, the threats are blamed on the policies of their corrupt opponents in the other political party.

For many politicians, without such tiresome hyperbole they would have little or nothing to say. Which is certainly part of why so many people try to ignore campaigning candidates. 

However, it's not an exaggeration to say Donald Trump intends to continue running roughshod over democracy, itself, and the rule of law in the USA. Therefore, those of us who do follow politics know that Trump has been making no secret of his plotting to become America's first dictator -- an unbridled ketchup-slinger who answers to no one. NO ONE.  

Moreover, believing that a court might put the total kibosh on Trump's bandwagon to recapture the White House, has, at best, been a lot of wishful thinking. At least it has in my view. In spite of what MSNBC's regular pundits and selected experts have been singing together in close harmony, I think that's been true all along. 

Furthermore, I have little doubt that MSNBC's ratings, and thus it revenues, have benefitted from promulgating that partisan take on the Court's likely decision concerning if and when to take up the issue of Trump's immunity appeal.  

So, here's the truth as I now see it to be: The scary aforementioned threats being posed to our democracy and the rule of law are as real as it gets. Plus, the only good answers to those looming threats can be found by winning a landslide of elections, national and statewide, to be conducted on November 5th. 

While the series of trials Trump is facing -- eventually, maybe someday -- could still play a role in the outcomes of some elections, from here on betting on the Supreme Court to issue decisions that appear to directly boost any particular candidates is a bad bet. Not this year. The highest court in the land appears ready to let all of Trump's legal troubles be settled at some time after the election, probably after the next inauguration day. 

If that's true, a majority of the justices are apparently buying it that after all the crazy stuff we've seen since Trump's famous escalator ride in 2015, should the voters opt to return such a gangster to the White House, then so be it. This, from a Supreme Court unashamed of its key role in attempting to foster a fascist regime.

Likewise, if Trump's coattails are long enough and the sycophant Trumplicans capture control of the Senate and the House, then OK -- the voters of the United States of America will be getting what they want: a full blown autocracy. 

For Democrats and anti-Trumpists of all stripes in 2024, winning the election is THE answer that matters ... and that's no exaggeration.