The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime...For Real
I apologize for that trite title. There is nothing more clichéd than political pundits and operatives urging "the base" to get out and vote because this is "the most important election of our lifetime," even when it isn't. This time, it is. To borrow from Dylan Thomas, tomorrow we will discover whether we are a people content to go gently into the madness of the MAGA night or whether we remain the feisty Americans of my youth who will "rage, rage against the dying of the light." Polling suggests that rage is on the menu, and rightly so. Even those sunshine patriots who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala Harris because they found her too politically stormy for their tastes seem motivated to visit the polls this time, ideological umbrellas in hand. Needless to say, those of us who spent the last two years warning about the dangers posed by a second Trump term are especially motivated. We have been the resistance, waging a hit-and-run cam...