Watching any of the news programs on NBC on Sunday could gain the impression that the Democrats and Biden have nothing to fear. Their lead is the largest in decades of presidential elections: 52% against 42% in Joe Biden's favor. Yet those following the unique Trafalgar poll, particularly the polls in key states, feel that anything is possible, with Donald Trump still having a chance to win a second term in the White House.
The two US political camps are not just in opposition to each other, nor are they only ideologically polarized. At this point in American history, they are living in different worlds. There is no longer a shared database. There is no basic agreement about the shared essence and future of American society.
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It is a mistake to present today's conflict in American politics in the outdated language of "conservatives" versus "liberals." Few liberals remain in the United States. Today's liberals kneel before revolutionaries who hate America and the foundations of freedom and democracy on which it is based. There is no agreement in the American public, the media, Congress, or the academic world regarding the definition of "democracy."
In short: US voters are today participating in a referendum on America. The Democrats present it as a referendum on Donald Trump, emphasizing his failure in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic; but the truth is that the American voter will choose between two regimes. The first, flawed as it may be, is led by a president that, though his personality is unpalatable to many of his followers as well, is nevertheless humanity's hope and the strategic backbone of all the lovers of freedom in the world.
The other regime, which is already rising from the bottom up, is a tyranny. It justifies a coup by intelligence agencies and senior members of the Democratic Party in collaboration with the media. It is a regime of silencing, persecution, and dismissal by an intellectual mob in control of important media outlets and ivory towers ruled by the establishment; of hi-tech and social media giants with a grip on the public consciousness.
The gap is closing between mainstream Democrats and radical leftists such as Prof. Noam Chomsky. This week, in an interview with the New Yorker – supposedly liberal stronghold – Chomsky said that Trump is the greatest criminal in the history of mankind. Really? Does that include Stalin and Hitler? Stalin and Hitler did not intend to destroy organized human life on the planet, contends the leftist guru, while Trump does.
Chomsky called Trump's program on energy sources and emissions the "Wannsee Conference." And the New Yorker had no qualms about publishing the interview – perhaps because this is more or less the opinion of Biden's followers. And so, two problematic candidates are at the center of the most fateful election in the history of the US since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency.
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