‘Excuse me, are you thinking about voting for Trump?’

If so, this is my column for you. 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Too often, we all preach to our bases rather than trying to reach out to those with different perspectives. So in this, [my last column before the election](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhfq-VP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMC8zMC9vcGluaW9uL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1wb2xhcml6YXRpb24uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTAzMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMzY0MiZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00Mjg4NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADeVKpxfy4zp6FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), I made a deliberate effort to reach out to those who are undecided or who are supporting President Trump, to try to explain why I see this election as so fateful and this president so threatening. I report this piece partly by talking to old friends who voted for Trump last time around, including one who is voting for Biden now. So please don’t give up on Trump voters. Try to listen to them and then respectfully persuade them — and I’ve written this column so that you can send it to your Trump-inclined parents without being disinvited from Thanksgiving. [Here’s the piece](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhfq-VP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMC8zMC9vcGluaW9uL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1wb2xhcml6YXRpb24uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTAzMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMzY0MiZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00Mjg4NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADeVKpxfy4zp6FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). 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Her argument was that Trump had supported opportunity zones and criminal justice reform, while Biden helped author the 1994 crime bill that resulted in mass incarceration of many African-Americans. These Trumpian arguments are just not true. Opportunity zones have helped fight poverty a little bit in some areas, but they’re mostly a tax break that benefits wealthy investors; they are more a program for the rich than for the poor. Criminal justice reform under Trump was real but tiny. Meanwhile, we have a long history of Trump as a racist, going back to the 1970s when the Nixon administration sued his company for refusing to rent to Black families. I reviewed the evidence back in 2016 and [concluded](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhfq-VP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxNi8wNy8yNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9pcy1kb25hbGQtdHJ1bXAtYS1yYWNpc3QuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTAzMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMzY0MiZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00Mjg4NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADeVKpxfy4zp6FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) then that Trump was a racist. As for the fact that Biden supported the 1994 crime bill, it’s complicated. The bill included one landmark measure, the Violence Against Women Act, as well as a poorly-crafted ban on assault weapons. It also included mandatory minimums in ways that added to mass incarceration and disproportionately hit Black Americans. That was bad policy. But a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus supported the measure at the time, along with Black religious leaders and mayors (some, to their great credit, resisted and were prophetic about what was coming). It seems fair to say that Biden made a mistake in supporting the crackdown, but it was complicated legislation and many others were similarly mistaken. Racism it wasn’t. 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You can vote [here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhfq-VP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZHJlYWRzLmNvbS9jaG9pY2Vhd2FyZHMvYmVzdC1ub25maWN0aW9uLWJvb2tzLTIwMjA_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAyMDEwMzAmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjM2NDImbmw9bmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NDI4ODcmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCgA3lSqcX8uM6ehSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), and it seems that there will be no Russian interference or voter suppression in this balloting. So Who’s Going to Win? Of course I don’t know, and I understand why Democrats are so nervous, simply because the stakes in this election are so high (for the Senate as well as the White House). But while Trump might win, I think it’s a long shot. I’d note that polling error is not consistently in one direction but bounces around. For example, we all know that in 2016 the polls understated Republican votes — but we forget that in 2012, the polls overstated Republican votes. We also have better state polling this time around, there are fewer undecided voters (last time around, undecided voters disproportionately broke for Trump), and less chance of votes being siphoned off by a third-party candidate like Jill Stein. I also sense more determination on the part of Democratic voters, and I wonder if the surge of Covid cases will prevent some Trump voters from heading to the polls. So could Trump win? Yes, indeed, but I don’t think he will. 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Jesse notes that the Electoral College was almost eliminated in a bipartisan effort in 1969, but this was stalled by a filibuster by segregationist senators. The Electoral College is a broken system, and I think there’s some hope for actually replacing it in the years ahead. Republicans are wary of changing the system now because they benefit, but that will change if Texas teeters over in the coming years and becomes a blue state. It will then be a large number of Republican votes that count for naught, because all Texas’s electoral votes will go to the Democratic nominee. In any case, Jesse’s book is a reminder of an undemocratic institution at the heart of our democracy, and the need for reform. The National Security Threat Posed by Our President In [my column today](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhfq-VP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMC8zMC9vcGluaW9uL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1wb2xhcml6YXRpb24uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTAzMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMzY0MiZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00Mjg4NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADeVKpxfy4zp6FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) (it will appear in print in the Sunday Review, as part of a columnist package about the election), I note that I’ve spent much of my career covering national security threats to the U.S. But one reason I’m so passionate about this election is that today I see the greatest threat to the U.S. coming not from Chinese missiles or Iranian nuclear weapons or jihadi terrorists, but from the possible re-election of President Trump. 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