As they continue to lose ground in the 2024 race for the White House, one reporter with decades of experience covering elections is noting that both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are starting to look like “chimpanzees” who are throwing their feces in a desperate effort to blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In an article he wrote for Salon, Brian Karem notes that Vance’s attack on Walz’s 24 years of service in the Army National Guard proves that the GOP is flailing about and losing ground with voters.
“At the end of the day, the GOP looked like those chimpanzees in the zoo who are kept behind glass walls because they fling their fecal remains at everyone. So far, very little of this has stuck to Walz, who remains affable and effective at blocking the demagoguery. Still, the GOP won’t give up its attempts to demonize Walz and Harris. The Democrats had to know it was coming, and if they didn’t then they’re more headless than I thought. The Republicans are certainly heartless. “
Trump also looks weak and feckless when compared to Walz, who spent decades as a public school teacher and is beloved in the state he leads, Karem adds.
“Trump, meanwhile, has dissolved under Walz’s addition to the Democratic ticket. Insiders in the Trump camp who still can nominally engage in cogent thought believe Trump made a horrible choice in choosing Vance and it will cost them the election. They’re running around with their hair on fire while trying to pull it out.”
In other words, Trump and Vance deserve each other, Karem rightly observes, because both of them are widely despised by a large majority of Americans.
“Donald Trump’s mental decline becomes more apparent every day. Vance’s fear of women, his desire to destroy voting rights and both of their desires to turn back time to ‘Make America Great Again’ when that past was never great for children, minorities, those of certain faiths and those in the LGBTQ community, are taking a toll on this country.”
The 2024 election, Karem concludes, isn’t just a choice between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives. It’s much deeper than that, and while Harris and Walz seem to understand that and have tapped into the larger zeitgeist.
“Watching Trump and Vance meltdown in public is funny, weird, creepy, and dangerous. But the more it becomes apparent that Trump is slipping, the more dangerous he and his vile movement become. For the country to come together, Trump cannot win. After all, who the Hell wants JD Vance a heartbeat away from the Presidency? I’m told even Trump doesn’t relish that thought.”
If Trump and Vance win, the United States as we know it is finished, and so is any pretense that this country is even the least little bit of a democracy or a republic. Instead, it will become the sort of “shithole” nation Trump loves to sneer at.
