Americans Must Realize There’s Only One Path To Prosperity This November

This article originally appeared in Daily Caller on September 4, 2024

"Elections are not singular affairs. Every vote in the American system may be a binary output for or against one or the other candidate, but the simple yes-or-no, this-or-that of the vote bears with it a rich variety of inputs that yield the definable output. Campaigns are fundamentally about asserting and influencing those inputs. Abraham Lincoln called it “persuasion.” We can adopt the same term, but we must understand that the persuasion begins long before the campaign ever does.

This is worth remembering in this 2024 election season, especially as we head toward the final sixty days. History is a guide here, and we may expect a crowded passage to Nov. 5, but, as I predicted, the fundamentals are already in place. These fundamentals — an unpopular regime, a coronated nominee leading the ticket for that regime’s continuation and the sheer incapacities of that nominee — all neutralize the full-court press for a Democratic victory. “Vibes” and “joy” haven’t worked. At this writing, Kamala Harris has seen no convention bump in polling at all, and she is effectively tied in the polling aggregates with Donald Trump. The massive and orchestrated propaganda campaign in her favor, combined with the honeymoon period after her anointing, plus the convention means one thing: This is her ceiling..."

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