This article is a progressive view of the 2024 election. This is just the way I see it. It’s the result of watching the electoral process very closely since 2015, but I could be wrong on any point. It’s value to me is that it refutes many of the strategic mistakes I see in the political conversation. I think the following factors are important for decision-making in 2024. What do you think?
- The political establishment is able to stop the progressive agenda in its tracks. Progressives should have learned this in the 2016 election.
- Donald Trump is part of the establishment. That explains why the Biden Administration has continued many of Trump’s foreign policies. However, President Biden has cooperated with progressives in domestic policy. Biden achieved many important policy changes as a result. We seem to be looking at two different factions within the government.
- Kamala Harris is a legitimate alternative to Donald Trump. However, Harris supporters of all political persuasions lament that she does not have the particular policies they want her to have. I believe this is evidence of a blindness to the reality that progressives were forced to learn in 2016, and which was repeated in 2020.
- Biden and Kamala Harris as his VP have taken the progressives seriously. We don’t know if this will continue with a Harris presidency. Nevertheless, anyone who tells you that you have a choice in this particular election is leading you astray.
- Kamala Harris is a good soldier, or she would not be the Democratic candidate for president. However, she may now have, or she may develop in the course of her presidency, a more nuanced agenda. We won’t know until we elect her.
- Kamala represents a new generation of leadership. The entire political establishment is past its prime. Republicans admit this fact. The Democratic establishment still thinks it dodged a bullet in defeating Bernie Sanders.
- The Green Party in the United States acts as an electoral pied piper for progressives. So does Donald Trump. Trump plays the part of the dancing fascist, partly as a way to distract the electorate.
- It is well-known that Donald Trump has had ties with the Mob. This brings up some interesting questions. Mafias need states to make money. They earn money by providing services for these states. One of these services is helping certain candidates win elections. Therefore, it is very interesting that Trump is proposing to dismantle the US government bureaucracy. Trump’s Mob ties suggest the US ‘state’ is not going away. Apparently, Trump is serving its most extreme faction.
- This extreme faction had no plan until the progressives developed their agenda in 2015. That’s how the right operates. Conservatives don’t propose new ideas. They only react to progressive proposals.
- Trump is both a fraud and a real threat. He is an actor in someone else’s play. That has always been his role in the US government.
- Mara-a-Lago has flood insurance through the federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program. Trump once took a $17 million insurance payment for damage that no one remembers happening.
- Trump put on quite an act when he teased us with the release of the JFK assassination files. Trump probably knows exactly who killed JFK and he doesn’t need the files to give him this information.
- Donald Trump had a meeting with Bill Clinton immediately before he announced his candidacy in 2015. Perhaps the events are not connected. Bill should explain this.
- Hillary Clinton received a large sum of money in 2016, after she was defeated. The Clintons used it to purchase the estate next to theirs in New York. Their daughter Chelsea and her family have the use of that estate when she visits her parents.
- I believe the loss of the 2016 election surprised Hillary. It was a crushing blow. Trump was probably surprised as well. He thought he was only there to defeat Sanders. I’ll bet Bill was not surprised.
- This does not mean that the 2024 election is not meaningful. If we fail to defeat Trump in this election, he will do exactly as he says he is going to do and no one will stop him. Trump will continue to behave as a fascist if he is elected, although he won’t have free rein.