Copernicus
Industrial Grade Linguist
We are just now having the very first primary of the 2024 presidential campaign. (Iowa was a Republican caucus state.) The general election doesn't start until September, but the public already knows both candidates thoroughly. The dynamic now in the Republican Party seems to be that they and so-called independents that reliably vote Republican are either enthusiastically behind Trump or, swallowing hard, trying to work up their enthusiasm to take on the hated Democrats. Democrats are mostly solidly behind Joe Biden, with a small minority looking around wildly at third party candidates, thinking stupidly that American presidential elections are national popularity contests. The idiotically conceived 18th-century-inspired electoral count is all that will matter, but it isn't at all clear that every traditionally red and blue state will remain in their respective traditional pattern when the dust settles in November (or whenever it ends up settling after all the shouting dies down). If Trump wins the electoral count, it would be poetic justice for Kamala Harris to declare the electoral count invalid and a mob of Democrats occupy the Capitol Building, proclaiming that they are just peaceful protesters.