One Last Time

 

Well, the election will come in just a few days, so let me make some final observations on what I think will happen.

I am sure that Donald Trump will lose the race, and lose it badly. And, irony of irony, he could lose because a lot of his voters will find they mailed in their ballots too late to be counted.

They might have been included, but his Republican supporters sued in a lot of states to block all the ballots that arrived after the polls closed on Election Day.

If he loses - let’s do some of the fun parts first - President Trump will certainly claim fraud. And he will point to all of those ballots that weren’t counted as a key reason he lost.

Betrayed. Betrayed by Democrats who were somehow behind it and betrayed by Republicans. After all, it was the Republicans who sued to keep those ballots from being counted, even if they were postmarked two or three days before the election.

Imagine his fury at the man he named to run the Post Office couldn’t get all those ballots delivered on time. Who knew there would be an election coming in November?

So, add the head of the Post Office to the people who run the FBI and the CIA. Even Jared Kushner may not be safe from the new Czar of Presidential Loyalty, Rudy Giuliani.

Then, of course, there will be others to blame. The Republicans who didn’t make campaign contributions. The mayors and governors who kept him from holding big rallies. Those nasty reporters who asked nasty questions. Not a single one about which ice cream he prefers. 

Instead, they just harped on those 525 children separated from their parents after they crossed the boarder looking for asylum. Whose idea was that anyway?

Now, sooner or later, when Trump loses the election, he will have to figure out what to do next. He could vow to stay in the White House and call in the Army to protect him.

But I don’t think that would work. First of all, he would have to stay in the White House, where he could be arrested by some of the state officials who are investigating him. And there is a good chance that the judge called on to set his bail might be a Democrat, or maybe one of those turncoat Republicans that only worried about their re-election.

Enough for the fun. Now, why do I think Trump will lose?

Several reasons. First is health care. For years, he has been promising a better federal health care plan once Obamacare is ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. But, that may not happen.

First, the lawsuit coming before the Supreme Court was filed by Attorneys General of a dozen Republican-controlled states. That could mean that any decision ruling the Affordable Care Act illegal would only apply in those states.

Or, the Supreme Court could rule that the case fails on the merits and simply dismisses it.

Now the lawsuit itself is why I think Trump will lose. Imagine millions of millions of people who depend on the Affordable Care Act suddenly having no insurance. I don’t think they want to vote for the man who caused it.

Why else? Well, Coronavirus, of course. Lots of people have died. Lots of others have gotten sick. The economy has crashed. And, while Trump keeps saying we are turning the corner on the virus, the virus does not have any corners. People are figuring that out.

Finally - I will keep the list short, since even I don’t want to read the top 100 reasons - a lot of formerly loyal Trump voters are making a sad discovery. They are not in his club. They will never pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to join Mar-a-Lago, will never be invited to the White House, will never even get a free MAGA cap.

I did get a fundraising letter a few weeks ago from the White House, and it said that if I gave his re-election campaign at least $35, I would get a pin identifying me as a founding member of a Trump support group.

I could wear it on my jacket if I ever go to Washington and take a tour of the White House. That way, anyone else in the club would see it and know what I did.

By the way, you can probably get a copy of a degree from Trump University on the internet somewhere, but while it would be much cheaper, you can’t wear that on your jacket.

Sad when you lose your identity.

Which is what I think will happen to Donald Trump in a few more days.

If you haven’t done it yet, don’t forget to vote.