Been thinking about your contentions. What strikes me is this: yes, there has been a sizable move to Trump in the wake of the riots. Hence why the media won't cover them anymore, or the wildfire arsons, or discuss the police ambush in L.A.
But it's like saying some % in CA has moved. It likely doesn't change the outcome given the base electorate. This isn't 1980 America anymore. It's Mexico-level corruption, incompetence, and voter apathy about real issues. Guided by a very intelligent, determined, powerful, entrenched leftist head. This isn't Venezualan street thug leftism. It's Chinese level sophisticated leftism that, in a "free" society, has seized control of basically all state and corporate organs.
A good example of this dynamic is the recent discussion of inroads Trump has made with Latinos. I don't doubt it. He may very well increase his support by 10% or even a third. From 25 to 35. Or 30 to 40, whatever. But when the fastest growing demo in the country, literally the replacement for a dying demo that is 2/3 in his favor, is somewhere around 60% to 2/3 against him, the movement in context doesn't matter. And given the razor margins in 2016, how do these net numbers lead to a win now?
If my read of the pulse is right, the greatest existential problem we'll face post election is where to go. The post election despondency will be deep, after the understanding this was 55 years in the making fully settles in. It isn't correctable. These are massive forces of history. Kennedy's 1960s immigration opening set the stage. Ironic that a Kennedy finally lost in MA this last week, devoured by the force he set in motion.
For me this is no different than seeing the fall of CA. I grew up there, under 16 consecutive R governor years. In a few short years, the left steam rolled a mildly R state into D supermajorities in both chambers and 2/3 D votes for state offices. Permanently. It's playing out nationally now. There is no "people will see through it" salvation when a fundamentally bad electorate incapable of navigating beyond the information control tips over the edge.
