Sitting here in Hong Kong, same time, same place as four years ago to the day (minus 5). When I called it for Hillary, just as did all the polls -- Hillary had “91% chance to win”.
And the polls today say the same about Joe Biden: he’s set to win, and in some predictions by a landslide. So I call it for Biden. Maybe they’ll all get it wrong again.
Do I think that if Joe wins it’s the end of western civilisation? The progression of Socialism in America? Of government by BLM? By Antifa? No, I do not.
But nor am I as phlegmatic as the “never Trumpers”, conservatives like Kevin Williamson (Atlantic, National Review) and Andrew Sullivan (New York Magazine, The Dish). They variously “hope” or “believe” that Joe will rule from the centre. They may worry privately, but certainly don’t voice publicly, that Joe has no spine, has changed every position he ever held ‘firmly", and is likely on that record to be bullied by the Squad: AOC, et al.
More: they both acknowledge that the media has been firmly anti-Trump, and carried water for candidate Biden, including shutting down the Hunter Biden email-gate. And yet seem to believe that such blatant partisanship won’t continue past the election. I doubt it. A hyper-partisan media will only be emboldened by their “win”, and not in a good way.
For me, the biggest disappointment if Biden wins is not so much because I think he’s incompetent (which he clearly is). Four tries at the presidency shows how bad of a candidate he is. It needed a pandemic to even put him in sight of the Oval Office. Recall as recently as March Trump was set to romp back to office. No, my biggest disappointment will be that the media, in cahoots with nastier elements in the DNC, will have won. The bad guys will have won. The ones that could never accept that Trump did win, legitimately, and set about trying to destroy him, with fake dossiers and bogus impeachments, and shutting bad news about the Biden’s, will have won. It’s their winning that will irk me most if Joe wins.
As Trump is fond of saying: “We’ll see how it goes”.
