Can the smoke screen and projection carry Kamala Harris across the finish line? Reality and logic keep pushing back, but she only has to go ~two more months. Let’s take a quick look at some of the reality mugging the Democratic/media machine.

Markets still rock though, and smack down the left’s fatal conceit. Yesterday saw several headlines on EV’s taking steps back, demonstrating that once again, if consumers are allowed to choose, they are almost never going to choose something forced upon them by the state, even with tremendous subsidies. Ford is delaying its new EV plant and concentrating on what consumers have shown preference for (hybrids). This closely follows GM’s similar slowdown, and acknowledgment that electrification is going to be much slower than expected.

“We won’t get to a million just because the market is not developing, but it will get there,” Barra said during a virtual CNBC CEO Council event. “We’re going to be guided by the customer.

Smackdown. The joy in Chicago is no doubt real, as was the thanks to Joe Biden (thank you for dropping out so we don’t have a complete bloodbath this electoral cycle), but the fun is in watching the Harris Administration* get smacked down once again. Our institutions held when Donald Trump tried to overturn the election results in 2020, and our institutions continue to hold against the Harris/Biden constitutional assaults. The Supreme Court unanimously put on hold the administration’s attempt to redefine sex discrimination to include gender identity. Mr. Biden repeatedly bragged about doing things that were unconstitutional despite the Supreme Court trying to stop him, and another smackdown is just what the doctor ordered. But make no mistake, Biden (and implicitly now Harris) have stated their goal of “reforming” the institution of the Supreme Court in ways that will be more favorable to jam their unconstitutional executive orders through. Let’s enjoy this smackdown while we can; if Harris wins this bulwark is going to be gone.

Finally, Freedom is the theme of the DNC, and it fits precisely into the “woe to those who call good evil and evil good.” Freedom is an upside down concept for Democrats. You are free only to rebel against God’s good order and design, but where God gives freedom, this the Democrats want to take (in many cases). So you are free to kill your unborn baby, free to carry out any peverted sexual activity you like (not just free, you must also celebrate, and everybody else must be forced to celebrate with you!), free to reject not just theology but biology. Men are free to declare themselves women and free to enter women’s protective spaces, and yet women are not free to have dedicated spaces which protect them and allow them to flourish. Further, you can’t have freedom in whether you’ll be able to chose a car with an gasoline engine in the future, you can’t have plastic straws or plastic grocery bags, you can’t have fracking**, you can’t decide if you want to work for a union or not (against right-to-work laws), you can’t decide whether you want to be in the gig economy–you must be an employee whether you like it or not. In all these areas of life in the marketplace, there is no biblical limitation on these freedoms, and yet they are willy-nilly for the Democrats. But things that God explicitly rejects, these we adopt with gusto.

* If the Democratic party can push Joe Biden to the side and anoint Kamala Harris without a vote, why can’t I?

** Yes I know Kamala’s backtracking, but the point is that there is no boundary that stops her from thinking that yes, if elected, we should just collectively take away this or that freedom. And if she changes her mind (and she hasn’t explained the reversals in her 2020 positions, we’re just told that), how do we know she won’t just change her mind again? We all understand changing your mind on a position or even two–we get more educated on an issue and a better understanding of the facts, so of course we’ll give her some grace–provided she gives convincing rationale to explain why she thinks differently now (which of course she has offered none–hence I don’t give her a pass). But the wholesale rejection of her radical positions of just a few years ago is highly dubious, especially when it’s coupled with today’s adoption of new radical positions (e.g., abolish the filibuster, pack the courts, etc.).