Carnival of Fools: Darkness Falls upon the Democrats

WITH JEFF BLEHAR

October 22, 2024

Good morning and welcome back to another edition of Carnival of Fools. Only two Tuesdays of this improbably memorable (and disturbingly unreal) campaign season yet remain, and I hope you subscribe so we can suffer through them together, as well as afterward. And while I remain officially agnostic about how it will all turn out — ask me on November 6 and I'll give you a solid prediction — with half a month to go, the Harris campaign and its partisans clearly believe that they're losing, while Trump and his fans are acting both in public and private like they are cruising toward victory. Will this turn out to have been a grandly ironic combination of premature panic and unearned confidence? All anyone can say right now is that Trump is riding a wave of good polling, and the "bad vibes" for Kamala that I wrote about in last week's newsletter have now given rise to a ...

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