'Working Man'

Many folks still believe winning this election involves online influencers, trending hashtags and downloading podcasts.

While those things can certainly have an effect, as we witnessed when the Podcast Bros and mainstream media machine turned against President Biden - and the big money donors and Hollywood elites closed their checkbooks effectively sealing his fate - what will win this election, besides the very organic enthusiasm and grassroots support of the excellent and joyful competency of the Harris/Walz ticket will be getting white suburban and rural voters who still support Donald Trump to turn their backs on racism.

White supremacy is very much at the heart of Trump’s campaign and most of his appeal. (Tax cuts are the motivating factor of the wealthiest of his supporters; their concerns over racism are conveniently overshadowed by greed - an age-old story in the good old USA).

GOP voters may not want to admit this but it doesn’t make it any less true.

They are willing to support a candidate who leads his party in cheers for mass deportations, as we witnessed this summer at the RNC.

A particularly low moment in a ‘Trump era’ chock full of them.

Donald Trump continues to attack his opponent based on the color of her skin and not the content of her character.

Vice President Harris is more qualified to be President of the United States than Donald Trump would be in a hundred lifetimes.

I worked on a TV show with the man so trust me when I tell you: he can barely read - and that is probably the least of his shortcomings and aberrations that make him wholly unfit for office.

He possesses the intellectual curiosity of a gnat and the endowment of a mosquito, as President Obama deftly ribbed him about at the DNC.

Normally not a subject that would matter or require comment but Donald’s myriad shortcomings are the motivation behind many of his transgressions and defects of character.

He is an immature, broken man trying to force his profoundly unwell psyche on the body politic of our nation.

He is incapable of seeing beyond his own needs, deep-seated dysfunction and bigotry.

He surrounds himself with sycophants and family members who are much the same.

Trolls and bottom feeders, as we witnessed last week at Arlington National Cemetery when Trump used the graves of fallen heroes for a campaign commercial and his coterie abused a cemetery staff member who tried to enforce the solemn ethical standards of our most hallowed ground.

Trump and the men he surrounds himself with don’t take no for answer, forcing their will on others.

The reality that the staff member was a woman only buttresses this sad fact.

Her reported fear of retaliation from MAGA if she pressed charges says far too much about the fraught nature of our current political state - and the criminality and brutality of the movement that Trump leads.

He embodies everything that those brave men and women laying in eternal rest at Arlington fought against and the outrage that has ensued speaks volumes about the growing awareness of what we are truly up against, and how imperative it is we defeat Trump (again) in November.

Donald Trump does not care about our troops.

He never has and never will.

He does not care about American workers or labor unions and the hard-won protections and benefits they provide the folks who are truly the backbone of our economy.

I think people forget, most especially his supporters, how hard it was to achieve the rights they earned through labor unions and separately, federal worker protections.

It was a miracle workers succeeded, if you truly consider who they were up against - wealthy industrial barons and corrupt politicians.

Trump will not celebrate and honor hard-working citizens this Labor Day weekend.

Donald will be on his private golf course, taking calls from fellow billionaires on how to best screw the working and middle class over more in a potential second term, as we can see laid out so clearly in the pages of Project 2025; the Republican blueprint for replacing our federal agencies with Trump loyalists and allowing big business to self-regulate.

A taste of which (no pun intended), we got this week as a result of FDA protections rescinded during Trump’s first term, causing the deaths of at least nine people due to a listeria outbreak at a Boar’s Head plant in Virginia.

Trump will continue to grift hardworking Americans, especially those still misguided enough to support him.

He will appeal to their worst instincts and attempt to foment division, while stoking the flames of xenophobia and racism that have hobbled and singed this country since its founding.

Trump is no friend to the patriot or the pure at heart public citizen.

He is an errand boy for oligarchs, a suck-up to private equity and protector of those born on third base whose only callouses came from holding golf clubs and silver spoons.

A fan of the perpetually-tanned Palm Beach set who lumbers onto his private 757 and visits parts of the country he himself would never live in, to spew lies to gullible rubes and misguided freaks for a few hours before returning to his private club, a place at which they would never be welcomed.

He is a conman, a thief and a predator.

Millions of our fellow Americans still support him because astoundingly they see in him a reflection of their own mediocrity.

A repository for their own bile, indecency and ignorance.

Donald is a disgusting man and his continued support amongst the GOP and MAGA cult should revolt men and women of conscience everywhere.

We can and must do better: it is incumbent upon us all to call out our fellow citizens who claim the mantle of patriot and ‘Christian’ when in essence they are promoting fascism and intolerance.

They trade in their virtue for the vice that Donald offers them.

It is a peep show for deplorables, a political snuff film that no decent person would ever want to watch.

Trump’s continued hold on such a large chunk of our population - even a third of our 330+ million citizens is far too many - astounds me. We need to call it out for what it is, white supremacy and Christofascism.

We can and will stop him in November - and prevail in the inevitable court challenges and chaos that he and his cohorts will provoke in the weeks and months after election day.

Then on a cold and (hopefully) clear day in January, we will warm our hearts with the satisfaction of equality and hope delivered.

We will bear witness to the inauguration of Kamala Harris as the 47th President of the United States.

Until that moment, it is up to me and you to do all we can do.

Work hard - Vote Blue.