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From the land of plenty to discontent

During a visit to one of our supermarkets, a French friend looked over a long shelf of apples. Seeing several varieties piled halfway to heaven, she remarked, “This is truly the land of plenty.” It truly is, but how, for so many of us, did it become the “land of discontent”? Of course, our political battles require challengers to go on and on about how bad things are and how they can fix what ails. Gas prices are always too high. Violent crime is rampant, even in places that see almost none of it. So many voters buy into this dark vision, which is why politicians portray life ...

Is it too early to be talking about 2028?

What can a columnist do when his deadline is Election Day and he doesn’t know who has won the presidency and other offices (and we likely might not know for days, or more, if the polls are right about a virtual tie)? Answer: He speculates about 2028. Whether Donald Trump wins or loses, and if he does lose whether he concedes, or not, 2028 will be another open contest for the Republican nomination. If Kamala Harris wins, her leftist positions and foreign policy inexperience will likely disappoint, even anger enough voters to elect almost any Republican. The person most likely to ...

Donald Trump’s American oligarchy

When he bounded onstage at the Trump vulgarfest in Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, Elon Musk declared himself to be not just MAGA, but “dark, gothic MAGA.” Believe him. The sorry spectacle of leading industrialists, newspaper owners, tech executives, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and others seeking to ensure their good standing with Trump reflects a blend of cowardice and cupidity. Mark Zuckerberg, whom Trump labeled a “true enemy of the people” as recently as March, and called “Zuckerschmuck,” demonstrated that there are no hard feelings where money and power are ...

Vote and respect the election process

What is most important about Nov. 5? It is not whether Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, with tens of millions of ardent supporters, returns to the White House. It is not whether Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, with tens of millions of passionate followers, becomes the first female president of the United States. What is most important is that citizens turn out in record numbers voting for the candidate of their choice and respecting the right of other citizens to do the same without fear of harassment or belittlement. The greater the turnout, the greater ...

Keeping the faith in America

Greetings from riding shockwaves in the nerve center of the free world. Bleak fury is passed around like the plague here since The Washington Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, nixed its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. This column before Election Day is filled with foreboding. Then came former President Donald Trump’s ugly rally in Madison Square Garden, laced with jeers, insults and racist remarks by his friends, which recalled the 1939 neo-Nazi rally right there in the same spot. One “comedian” called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” Very ...

A testament to political toxicity

We’ve passed the peak of woke politics in the U.S., and the Harris for president campaign is the leading indicator. Of all the things that Kamala Harris wants you to know about her — that she grew up in a middle-class family, that she’s not Joe Biden, that she has a “to-do list” for the American people — perhaps foremost among them is that she’s not woke. She doesn’t have any rote line asserting this, but achieving distance from the fashionable left-wing politics that defined the Trump years and their immediate aftermath motivates much of what she says and does. That ...