Then voters would have rejected Trump.⁸
But reality is staring us in the face:
Trump isn’t winning because of any of these things. He’s winning because a large swath of the country wants him to win. They want the authoritarian strongman who will do what it takes to make the people they don’t like disappear.
We have to stop coming up with stories. We have to stop telling ourselves fairy tales about how things could have been different. We have to look at what is happening and confront it head-on.
If Trump wins, it won’t be because Harris didn’t do Rogan’s podcast. It will be because America chose him.
And if Harris loses, it won’t be because she didn’t run a perfect campaign. It will be because America chose him.
We have to face that reality. Because until we do, we will never be able to fight it.
Entonces, los votantes indecisos masculinos en [Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, cualquier otro lugar] habrían rechazado a Trump.
Pero ninguna de estas racionalizaciones será más cierta que los argumentos de que lo que realmente importaba a los votantes era el crimen, o la edad de Biden.