Trump Chooses Mike Pence as Running Mate

It will be interesting to see how they fare with an electorate that includes women, Hispanics and all people of color, LGBTs, Muslims, true Christians, economists and trade policy professionals, military people who understand the realities of war, constitutional lawyers, kind and decent people, anyone who believes in science, young people, and essentially everyone else with a college education.  This leaves only angry, old, uneducated white men–and fortunately for us all, that’s simply not going to get the job done.

And the ticket now includes Pence, whose voting record on energy, the environment, education, women’s rights, civil rights, and taxation and budget makes him even scarier than Trump himself. It’s a long shot if there ever were one; this election will certainly be the biggest landslide since 1972.  The only thing that keeps the whole discussion alive as a “thing” in U.S. culture is the media, who can’t afford to admit that (thank God) it’s over.

Of course, leaders of other countries can’t vote in U.S. elections, which could be viewed as actually helpful to Trump, insofar as his views are so far out of step with the rest of the world.  If made president, he would become the only leader of any country on Earth who rejects climate science, and that includes some of the world’s premiere nut-jobs: Robert Mugabe, Bashar al-Assad, and Kim Jong-Un.

We all need to breathe a collective sigh of relief that this isn’t going to happen.