It is the time of the year for election predictions, which means a best guess based upon polls that are unreliable and a weird gut feeling that might be indigestion rather than wisdom.

The marquee match is, of course, the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for the Presidency. Partisans on both sides are firmly entrenched behind their respective candidates, so this contest will come down to the eternal battle for the moderates in the middle, who are probably a bit dissatisfied with both candidates and, if this election is like all others, will break late for reasons that will have more to do with emotion rather than logic.

This explains why Kamala Harris and her surrogates are leaning heavily into the “Trump is Hitler” messaging as the days tick down. Frustrated that she cannot close the deal with voters for reasons that range from an inability to speak without a teleprompter to the gymnastic flip-flopping regarding her own record, Harris’ campaign has decided that frightening voters is now their best path to victory. 

This might not work as well as they expect on those coveted moderate voters simply because it is both an obviously contrived scare tactic and Harris has continued to this very day to fail to define her positions, which has been a signal shortcoming of her quest for the White House. The latest effort to compare Trump’s wildly successful rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 Nazi event at the same location neatly neglects the fact that Democrats ranging from John Kennedy to Bill Clinton also spoke at the same venue to similarly enthusiastic audiences, but desperate propaganda has never been known for either its logic or veracity.

It must also be noted that the battles for the Senate and House are enormously important to the future of our nation because they are the conduits for our laws and can either speed along a President’s programs or block them entirely. It is also likely that whoever is elected President will be filling a couple of Supreme Court vacancies in the years ahead, and Senate approval will be needed to fill those seats. The impact of elections for Governorships and State Legislatures will also be enormous; the battles over budgets, public safety, and education dead ahead are going to be titanic struggles for the soul of America.

Given the sour mood of the voters, a clear majority of whom believe America is on the wrong track, I find it hard to believe that Democrats are going to have a good night—and I suspect it might be a very bad night up and down the ballot for them. 

The documented erosion of their support among key constituencies and everyone’s frustration with price inflation, which is grinding away at our household budgets and patience every day due to the incredible fiscal irresponsibility of the Biden-Harris economic policies, are two clear problems for Democrats this year. Recently revised statistics on crime have finally revealed the public safety crisis we all already knew existed, war is breaking out everywhere, and the disaster of uncontrolled illegals immigration has disgusted the vast majority of American voters. Adding to these problems, new Democratic proposals for more taxes, more censorship, more Green New Steal, more money dumped into Ukraine, and more racially-charged politics seem likely to repel many more voters than they will attract to Kamala’s camp.

The wild card—and only hope for Democrats dealing with a losing hand—is the question of how effectively they can use their allies in the mainstream media to terrify voters into rejecting Donald Trump and Republicans. The accelerating pace of utterly insane articles being published warning of mass round ups, martial law, and militarized policing of our nation is an indication that America’s already unhinged political Left has abandoned all pretense of normalcy in favor of fear mongering that has reached a new low in our nation’s history. The so-called “joy” of Kamala’s campaign has turned into a terror bombing of America.

Sadly, a substantial number of voters, apparently unaware that the biggest problem that faced Americans during Donald Trump’s term as President was how to spend their tax cut, are susceptible to this kind of outrageous propaganda because they have been, to put it bluntly, brainwashed into believing there is a racist under every rock and a fascist lurking around every corner. Convincing Americans to fear one another seems the very last thing that a responsible political party should do, but this is where Democrats are today. Regardless of the outcomes of the elections this coming Tuesday, the net effect is that our national dialogue will reach new and disturbing levels of paranoia in the months ahead, and this might lead a substantial number of Americans to further abandon the norms of behavior that have governed our democracy for centuries. 

Should Donald Trump and Republicans be ascendant when the votes are finally counted—and we can expect Democrat lawyers will do everything in their power to delegitimize the elections should it go that way—I fear we might see Leftists fomenting civil unrest to try to win on the street what the could not win at the ballot box. I hope that I am wrong, but the riots of the summer of 2020 demonstrated there is a well-organized infrastructure of insurrection that is ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice—it only awaits a signal to start burning America.

If Democrats have a good election, I do not believe violence will result, but open and embittered non-compliance might become the new normal among Republicans who believe that Marxist ideas and totalitarian control are destroying what remains of traditional American values and the vanishing American dream. However, the final outcome will be similar to that we will likely experience with a Republican victory: more anger, less cooperation, and the same stultifying political polarization. 

Given the enormous challenges our country will face in very short order, it would be nice if we could all act like Americans instead of antagonists. It is, sad to say, incredibly hard to imagine this critical juncture of American history will someday be remembered as an era of good will and bipartisanship, but perhaps crisis will bring our nation together in ways that are now difficult to imagine.