Another day another four Trump rallies to watch. We've watched every single one, at least since Tulsa last June. We usually use the RSBN live feed on Youtube. We've gotten to know their correspondents. Sometimes we make fun of their youth and cluelessness, even as we love them. They need classical training, I tell J. We've both given them money.
Right now Trump is wrapping up his speech in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,.He is standing in front of the historic headquarters where Washington launched the crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night 1776, and turned the war.
He's been building up to this theme the entire campaign---the Crossing of the Delaware. This rally is the payoff of that theme. Everyone on Twitter has noticed that it is somber. No risers of cheering crowd behind him, just the old stone headquarters in the Pennsylvania woods, the trees in encroaching bareness of late October.
Watching the speech, it hit me. The River is literally the boundary between Red and Blue America, as it is now configured. This isn't just about winning the election. The moment has come for something far more enduring and important. Trump is launching an invasion of Blue America, and it is now in full swing.
All four rallies today are in Pennsylvania, where the campaign has had more field offices than any other state, throughout the entire campaign.
Before the start of the rally, one of the young women on RSBN said, in young woman of 2020 dialect accent, "They always say, whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the election." That made me almost snort No one has ever said that. Pennsylvania has never been that kind of swing state, except in the earliest days of the Constitutional Presidency. Pennsylvania, as I used to say, is the big wrecking ball of the Electoral College, slow to move into motion but devastating when it crashes to the other side.
But for this year, she is correct. I think during elections RSNB needs some kind of Eric Sevareid figure, to put things into perspective. In the 1964 election, he was the one that Cronkite would turn to, sitting in a desk by himself in the newsroom floor, "to talk about...anything he wanted to talk about," as Cronkite joked at one point early in the broadcast, while introducing him.
It was Sevareid who noticed with amazement the fact that would come to dominate American politics until this era, namely that literally over 99% of black people were voting for one party, the Democrats. "It's the first true voting block in American history,' he said. Even he didn't quite know what to say about it that night.
As I watch the end of this Bucks County speech, I can sense that Trump is adjusting the tone of his speech to be more cautious in his projections. He says with firmness that he will win Pennsylvania, and win the election, as he always does. But it is not with overt bravado. He warns about what would happen if he doesn't win.
This is most likely because he knows he has won the election, and wants to steady the moment of victory as we head into Tuesday. He is very plain that the entire basis of his military strategy is deception. He is the master of that. He fooled the Elite into thinking he was a buffoon, and was allowed to be up close to them, inside their circles, for many years, as he studied them and learned their weaknesses. He has always been our guy on the Inside. He is the greatest spy in history, and he has been working for Us against Then.
Now he had fully decloak, and be who he is, because the invasion is in full motion. The ones who will lose their minds in the days ahead are those most wedded to the illusion of who they think Trump was. They bought his persona, as he needed them to, but they are too invested the illusionary world to which that hated persona is attached. To lose that persona in their mind is to wake up from horrible dream. It will be traumatic for many.
At the end of his speech, Trump did not wind up with the same lines and chants, which he always includes to stir the crowd up, to go out on a high note after long improvisation like a stand-up comedian. This time he simply, and always quietly, asks the people there, and the nation as a whole, to honor him with a vote on Tuesday."
As he goes off, the speakers still play the same song we are used, that has become the theme song of his campaign. Y.M.C.A. by the Village People. But this time he doesn't dance, as he done recently. He quietly goes to the limousine, that will take him to Air Force One.
In a few hours he will be speaking in Reading, Pennsylvania. I'm very much looking forward to that. Reading was a German immigrant from the Rhine-Palatinate who founded a colony of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the region, after leading them from Upstate New York, where they tried to first settle. He became friends with the various Iroquois-speaking tribes of the area, and learned their language. He was the principal negotiator of most of the treaties between the British and the Iroquois and other tribes, in the decades before the American Revolutionary War. The Iroquois called him "He Who Holds the Stars" I'm his direct descendant, at least eight generations, I think.
It's Great to live in that America.
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