"We have just witnessed two weeks that defy imagination. And yet, none of the epic events not the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, nor the outing of Donald Trumps taxes, nor Trumps stunning savagery in his opening debate with Joe Biden, nor Trumps contraction of COVID-19 were, at the end of the day, terribly surprising. One could reasonably argue that they were all inevitable it is simply the confluence of their occurrence, and all so close to Election Day, that leaves us reeling.
Not only reeling, but, more than ever, without a clue as to where it all will land. As predictable as those events might have been, the outcomes that could arise from them range from A to Z. Most notably: will Trump recover, physically? Can he recover, politically, from the blows delivered by his taxes, his widely-panned debate performance, and the return of COVID as a campaign issue? And will Amy Coney Barrett actually ever be confirmed as a lasting Trump legacy on the Supreme Court? "