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MICHAEL WALSH: Voting and Democracy. Predictions based on early voting numbers and party registra?

By Ed Driscoll

MICHAEL WALSH: Voting and Democracy.

Predictions based on early voting numbers and party registration are risky, and anyone who says he can forecast the future in the crazy year of 2020 needs his head examined. This is a campaign that has seen candidate Donald Trump shake off the virus and barnstorm vigorously around the country.

Meanwhile, candidate Biden is senescent, increasingly confused, feeble and even more gaffe-prone than usual, with his replacement, Kamala Harris just itching to succeed him via the 25th Amendment. Biden has for months conducted a basement campaign in the hopes that the people who hate Trump are more motivated to vote early (and perhaps often?) than those who love him. And whatever happens after Jan. 20, 2021 will be Harris?s problem.

For the Democrats, therefore, the more votes they can pile up early the better, in order to withstand the surge of the Republican electorate, which prefers to wait until the constitutionally mandated time?and then deliver a rebuke to the Democrats and their partners in electioneering, the media, who apparently have learned nothing from the beating they took four years ago.

Soon enough, then, we?re going to find out just whose ?democracy? this is. That of the ?progressive? Left, aided by its thugs from Antifa and the Black Lives Movement, who wish to dispose of the hated Trump and resume their pedal-to-the-metal, Thelma-and-Louise rush to propel the country through our previous electoral norms and safeguards and over the precipice?

Or the patriotic Americans who love their country despite its real or imagined failings, don?t want to be bullied and buffaloed by the coastal elites into turning their backs on their patrimony, and wish to keep the Republic the founders bequeathed them?

Earlier: How Things May Look on November 4.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 27, 2020 (boomark / email).