Don't Vote for the Candidate Our Enemy Wants to be America's President

And Don't Vote for the Candidate Who Is Opposed to Good News for America

I would have thought that it goes without saying. But because that turns out to be wrong, I’m going to say it:

Don’t vote for a candidate for president that America’s bitterest enemy, a man who wants to see America destroyed, is supporting.

And, while I am giving out good advice, don’t vote for a candidate who actively opposes good news and positive developments for America.

Really, folks, do we also have to tell some of our neighbors that if a candidate actively supports union busting, unions should not support him?

That would be like telling voters who depend on federal programs for health care or retirement income or education or even food for their families that they should not support a candidate who wants to cut or end those programs.

Or it would be like telling voters who are angry that they are not enjoying the same economic benefits as the rich that they should not vote for someone who promises to raise their taxes in order to pay for lower taxes for billionaires.

It’d be crazy to have to do such things.

It’d be like saying don’t pick someone for the highest office in your democracy who wants to actually end that democracy. Don’t pick as the principal defender of your Constitution someone who has advocated terminating it.

That’d be like saying you probably shouldn’t vote for a traitor or a convicted criminal or a racist or someone who hates women.

There are just things that good old fashioned common sense dictates.

Right?

And yet, when I look at polling data concerning the upcoming election, it seems to suggest that something just under half of all voters actually support a candidate who is the preferred choice of Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, former KGB officer, war criminal, a man who once bragged over dinner conversation that he could destroy America in a half an hour or less.

How do we know that Putin prefers Trump? Well, a new study from Microsoft states that Russia has moved its disinformation efforts to attacking the candidacy of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The study details multiple instances that Russia’s intelligence operations have spread lies about the Vice President with the clear goal of helping Trump to win. One lie they promoted suggested Harris was involved in a hit and run accident involving a 13-year-old girl. There have been many others. Russian troll farms are known to be promoting the racist dog and cat eating immigrant stories of Trump and Vance with the same objective. What is more, the study made clear what intelligence sources have been saying for months now, they expect the intensity of Russian pro-Trump operations to intensify in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

But Trump voters, many of whom have American flag decals on the cars or who have bought NFTs of Trump leading troops into battle carrying an American flag, they just don’t seem to mind or know that they are helping advance the anti-American plans of our bitterest enemy.

They also don’t seem to care that much that Trump again and again actively opposes positive developments for America and the American people. Why? Because he thinks that if good things happen it may hurt his chances of winning. That is why, of course, he opposed the bipartisan border bill. It is why he just today encouraged Republicans in Congress to block a temporary spending bill to keep the government open. (Good luck with that, by the way, Don. Even Mitch McConnell understands it would be political suicide for the GOP.) Similarly, Trump supporters within his campaign and on Capitol Hill, attacked the 50 basis point reduction in interest rates approved today by the Federal Reserve—a reduction by the independent central bank that made it clear they think the economy is in strong shape and inflation is nearing its target levels.

Also today, we saw the national Teamsters Union fail to endorse any presidential candidate even though a month ago the head of that union accused Trump of "economic terrorism.". (To the credit of many in the Teamsters, locals subsequently stepped up and did the sensible thing of actually supporting the pro-union candidates in the race, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. And of course virtually every other major union in the United States did the sensible thing and supported those who are likely to help rather than seek to undermine them.)

So, it seems that we do have to state the obvious. And so if we must, let me offer a few other tips for voters who are leaning toward Trump that are along the same lines as those mentioned at the top of this column and therefore may be points that need to be made: Don’t stare directly into a solar eclipse. Do not inject bleach into your veins as a way of combatting disease. And don’t store stolen national nuclear secrets in the bathroom of a tacky seaside mansion that is known to be a den of foreign spies.

I hope this was helpful.