My final election prediction: Reality wins
Damon Linker, The Week
The Trump era has been a deranging time — and not least because the president practices a perspectival form of politics. He talks and acts as if there is no objective truth, no common world of reality and facts out there setting the boundaries of the possible. Instead, there are only "takes" — different partisan perspectives, none of which has more or less purchase on what's happening in the world.
So, for Trump and his supporters it doesn't matter that his approval rating has been about 10 points under water for the entirety of his presidency, or that he's never once taken the lead in head-to-head national polls, or even once been within 3 points of Joe Biden, or that Biden has led in nearly every swing state, week after week, month after month. For Trump and his supporters, this is all irrelevant. It's just a mirage concocted by the president's opponents — a competing narrative that isn't truer than the account put forth by the Trump campaign.
According to the Trump campaign's alternative narrative, the proof is in the pictures. Just look at how many thousands of people are showing up for the president's rallies in swing state after swing state! Look at how many Trump supporters stopped traffic in solidly blue New York and New Jersey on Sunday afternoon with their imposing-looking trucks! Biden should be terrified! A red wave is forming!
Don't believe the gaslighting.
https://news.yahoo.com/final-election-prediction-reality-wins-104502134.html
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