To the rational among us, leftist independent filmmaker Michael Moore is a veritable mess. Sure, he's made a few decent movies, but in the realm of politics, dude's off the left-wing charts. And now that Kamala Harris is the presumed Democrat presidential nominee, Mr. Moore is damn giddy — albeit neurotically so.
While many on the right see the 2024 presidential election as Donald Trump's to lose, Moore disagrees. As he's now warning his fellow Democrats, "It's ours to lose."
Moore told the Guardian that while the Democrat party is riding on a wave of optimism following embattled Joe Biden’s decision to finally bow out of the race, he's concerned about how long the "pink cloud" — a reference to heroin addicts — will last.
This isn’t just a sugar-high or what [recovering] heroin addicts call a pink cloud. It was so depressing for so many weeks and then it was instantly not depressing. I am hopeful now but it’s ours to blow — and we have a history of blowing it.
Moore has been here before.
In his 2016 movie, "Michael Moore in Trumpland," he warned Democrats of the strong possibility of Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton because Trump's message appealed to disenfranchised voters in Michigan and other battleground states. In 2020, he took to X and warned that enthusiasm for Trump was "off the charts" and pleaded with Democrats to come together if they hoped to win. The rest is history.
At this point in the Guardian interview, Moore drove the Kamala bandwagon into the ditch, saying how happy he was that Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate, but he also said he understood why some Democrats are nervous that the Harris-Walz ticket could come apart.
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Yet, Moore claimed:
I understand why people are nervous it might be a sugar high but Harris and Walz are people of substance. They’re being slow and cautious enough to get it together. It’s just been a couple of weeks. They are going to have to tell us what they’re going to do and hopefully come up with the right thing. And there will be mistakes.
Oh, they're people of substance, alright, Michael.
The question is, what kind of substance? The substance of "communist price controls? The substance of stolen valor? The substance of a radical agenda that Democrats are all but begging her to hide until after the election, presuming she wins?
Moore lauded Harris’s decision not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress last month, urging her to continue catering to the party’s anti-Israel base. How loyal. Then it got stupider.
"Young people hate war and they’re totally against Biden and his support of the war," Moore said. Memo to Michael: All decent people hate war, fool. The wise among us understand that war must sometimes be fought to avoid worse wars in the future, and that horrific attacks must not go unpunished — for obvious reasons.
The Way to Beat Trump
This is Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome-riddled Moore's wheelhouse.
Once anybody gets under that thin skin anything can happen. On live TV? Trump could explode, start talking like a 12-year-old, though no offense to 12-year-olds, or get up and leave.
But nail him with irony, satire and a simple way to point out the beyond weird absolute idiocy and insanity of what these two men are talking about. Reach them on a commonsense level so it doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat or Republican.
My gut tells me this: If Trump could focus on securing votes he didn't get in 2020, and worry less about his loyal base, which is going anywhere, I'd feel comfortable about his chances in November.
In that respect, I still think it's Trump's to lose, Mr. Moore.
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