I made a passing comment to a MAGA on the way in to lunch [View all]

She was wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" shirt.

I said, not quite under my breath, "Let's Go Brandon? Well, he went. Now y'all are fucked!"

She kept walking. Obviously pissed, but kept on walking. I didn't know whether or not to be disappointed. My wife laughed, told me not to start shit, and we went to a family lunch. That's where I found out that my brother-in-law, who I thought was pretty conservative, told me that this election was different, that Trump was a threat to democracy, and he was voting Harris. His son, a college student, was all fired up about Project 2025 and its dissolution of the DOE - "what replaces federal financial aid?"

I've met a number of people who would normally reflexively vote Republican as slightly right-of-center who were iffy on President Biden who are locked in on VP Harris. Between the activist Supreme Court and the Heritage Foundation, there's a sense that their party has gone way too far and if they have to vote Democratic this time to bring it back to its senses, they will. And they're also voting Democratic down ticket against Trump sycophants.

There's no doubt that we need to keep things high energy and that we need to find all the things about Project 2025 that will galvanize people. I said some time ago that we could hang that around their necks like a millstone, and I still believe it. TFG's crystal-clear desire to be an autocrat is finally sinking in to a lot of people, because the Supreme Court as a check to that is clearly gone. They also know that TFG doesn't really give a shit about anything but his own welfare and finances, but Vance scares a lot of people because he's a true believer.

TFG will have his rallies and all, but I am starting to get the impression that we have a silent majority that normally doesn't care much or pay much attention who feel a real need to vote against TFG and MAGA. I don't think they want to be reminded about voting Democratic, and won't participate in polls. I also think that many will get to a voting booth, and having reflexively voted Republican a lot of times, will waver once they actually have to push the button. We need to keep Project 2025 and authoritarianism foremost in their minds. If we keep that focus, we could be looking at a blue wave that brings us the victories we expect and a lot we don't.