By Rich Lowry
Wednesday,
November 20, 2024
There were a number of scams perpetrated by the
Democratic–media complex during the election. One was that the Puerto Rican
joke was going to sway the campaign. Another was that the Iowa poll showed the
Midwest slipping away from Trump. But perhaps the biggest was that Kamala
Harris was joyous. In fact, she was utterly synthetic, while the guy having fun
— at least most of the time — was Donald Trump. One reason that the Right went
for the narrative that Haitians were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio,
was that the countless online memes of Trump protecting kittens and dogs were
so amusing (I’m not saying this was a good reason to repeat bad information).
Anyway, the starkest evidence that Trump was the more
joyful candidate is how his “Y.M.C.A.” dance has been picked up across the
sports world. The appeal of the dance is that it’s kind of ridiculous, and in
making it one of his signature moves, Trump was willing to implicitly make fun
of himself, or at least didn’t care how he looked — something that’s always
immensely appealing in candidates. And it was totally authentic. No political
consultant came up with the dance or gamed out how it might play in Scranton,
the way the Harris campaign might have.
He just did it, and enjoyed himself. Imagine that.
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