Now I’m having a good time…
I’ve often said that politics is not meant to be enjoyed. It’s important, sacred, dirty, ugly, demoralizing, all of the above, but it’s not for entertainment. The thing is, though, we often end up having to fight political battles against the very worst of monsters, to the point that we almost have to treat it like a game – and that’s fine as long as we’re actively trying to win that game, and not treating it like a spectator sport.
In any game there are winners and losers. When you’re trying to win the most important election in history and there are only nine days left and it feels like it’s been going on for nine years, you’re never quite sure whether it’s okay to feel like you’re winning. Then today happened.
Before Donald Trump even took the stage today, one of his featured speakers had already set Trump’s political life on fire by calling Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” among other racist insults. It set off a chain reaction of events and instantly became the biggest headline story of the election heading into the final full week of the election. If you want Kamala Harris to win, this was a total gift.
We’ve spent all this time fighting this hard, and then suddenly, with nine days left, the evil villain takes a terrible political blow from one of his own hate rallies. The story heading in to the final week of the election is that Trump is indeed as racist as his detractors have always said he is. This is, in terms of winning and losing, just what we needed.
So yeah, now I’m having a good time. As, I imagine, are you. This is just the shot in the arm that we all needed as we continue to work ourselves to exhaustion down the stretch. Now let’s go win this.
