Another MAGA unforced error
Imagine being a moron. Now imagine being a window-licking, crayon munching MAGA cretin. But, I repeat myself. Anyway, imagine waking up from your lifelong stupor one morning and suddenly realising you were the decisive cause for Trump losing the 2024 election. Somewhere out there, in some mother’s basement, lives some glowering, MAGA mental homunculus who just might fit that description.
On Saturday, October 19, high over Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, some Trump-licking idiot (or collection of Trump-licking idiots) hired a plane to drag a sign carrying the message “TRUMP 2024 – READY FOR IT, CAT LADY? MAGA!” Below were a thousand gazillion fans of Taylor Swift — the aforementioned so-called “CAT LADY” — waiting for Taylor to come on stage to perform. Somebody took a video of that plane. That video went viral.
When I first heard about this stunt, my first thought was, “No, not even the mental defectives of the official Trump campaign would have done something as stupid as that.” Turns out I was right. Maybe. But upon further reflection, I now wonder if some of the mental defectives of the Trump campaign weren’t wishing they had thought of this first. Whatever the case, some well-meaning MAGA bonehead “thought” this was a good idea. It was. For us.
Whoever the knuckle-dragging goon who came up with this sign-dragging plane idea is, he or she or they just gave us a boost of millions of Taylor Swift fans. About half of those fans are of voting age. Most of those fans hate Trump. Some portion of them probably weren’t going to vote. Now they will. They may know or care nothing about politics. But that no longer matters. Somebody just poked the bear, and in a world full of surprises, that bear could very well wake up, lazily lean forward and, with one mighty swipe of a claw, cut Donald Trump’s head off.
Of course this is speculation. But what if it were so? What if that move, all by itself, got Kamala Harris elected President of the United States? It would be an ironic and astonishing end to a weird time. Whatever the case, in a time when Donald Trump repeatedly shoots himself in the foot with such inanities as half hour-long monologues about the late Arnold Palmer’s penis, it’s almost as if the Universe is giving us early signs that the mad world of Trump is now and at last over.
Even though the signs and the polls and the general enthusiasm for Kamala feels ripe for victory, we mustn’t turn down any help. I’d rather be cautious and win by a huge margin than insouciantly incautious and win by a small one. But this latest stunt by MAGA is an example in part of why they’re losing. Thanks to (besides their mother’s basement) the echo chamber in which many of them dwell, MAGAs just don’t understand the forces arrayed against them. A win by an existential Trump suicide is okay with me.
What’s more, an Emerson College Poll has noted that “late deciders,” that is, voters who have made up their minds in the last month who to vote for, are breaking 60% to 36% in favour of Kamala Harris. One can imagine that the swing for Harris will be even more dramatic amongst young Taylor Swift fans.
Taylor Swift is concluding her “Eras Tour,” the largest and most wildly popular such tour in the history of music. If Trump wants to accidentally piggyback some Kamala commercials on it, who am I to argue? He can think about all the things he did wrong later. He’ll have plenty of time to think about it — in prison. For now, as Taylor puts it in her song “… Ready For It?,” … Let the games begin. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.