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CLR Show 1956. Air Date August 13, 2024.  With all the positive energy flowing into and from the Harris campaign and the total antithesis being evidenced on the Trumpian side, it's easy to envision a Harris-Walz victory on Nov. 4. The Harris campaign is bringing out the best of our long-suppressed American optimism, our inherent can-do sense and the very best of the American political system. The problem lies with what happens between November 5th and the inauguration on January 20th. Trump and his minions realize this will be their final chance to destroy the Constitutional order and proclaim Donald ruler of the former United States. Moreover, his pending convictions and imprisonment could well portend their own fate. It's not unreasonable to envision a no-holds-barred effort to illegally seize power––until the strength of the American majority is fully asserted and American law blunts those efforts for good. But don't expect it to be clean or easy.   

CLR Show 1955. Air Date August 9, 2024. A wholly unscientific sampling of prior Trump voters is revealing a willingness to discuss the relative pros and cons of Donald vs. Kamla, at least on the part of the relatively small, rational republican fringes. Given the incredibly positive vibe of the incredibly effective early Harris campaign, this was to be expected. Harris is breaking through even the otherwise impenetrable Trumpian media wall and forcing the moderate fringes to question voting for a convicted felon. But it will not always be this easy for Kamla. The Donald forces will reassemble and begin the heaviest barrage of garbage attacks and outright lies in American political history, probably just after the Democratic convention and in the lead-up to the first (and probably only) Donald-Kamla debate on September 10th. And after that debate... the ultimate expression of Trumpian panic will be on full display. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.   

CLR Show 1954. Air Date August 6, 2024. Voters in November will have the simplest and most obvious of all of choices; the choice of hope over fear, of Kamala over Donald. But many Trumpians will still choose Donald and fear, largely because they have been bathed in Donald's fear for such an extended period that they are numb to the possibility that hope is an option for America and Americans. That will not be the case for democrats. Kamala has injected a level of hope into the campaign that has not been experienced since the first Obama campaign, and may very well exceed the levels of hope and participation experienced at that time. Her trajectory is upward and her constituency and resources continue to grow at an unprecedented pace.  Donald is throwing everything at the wall and nothing is sticking. The same old grievance-laden predictions of a 'stolen election' will soon become his vapid, beleaguered battle cry. And he will ultimately lose more supporters than he will gain.  

CLR show 1953. Air Date August 2, 2024. The core themes of both the democratic and republican campaigns have been established and it couldn't be more disastrous for the republicans. They are all about fear, division and retribution. The Harris campaign is about hope, inclusion and building America. And all of this before Kamala even announces her VP pick, or the democrats hold their convention. Recall that, even with the recent attempt on Donald's life, the republicans saw no bounce whatsoever from their convention, the worst of all political signs. But Kamala's campaign cannot simply be a contrast in feelings. There must be an intense focus on democratic policies, both as they have and will make the country better and stronger and how they differ from the democracy defeating non-policies of Donald and his ilk. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.     

CLR Show 1952. Air Date July 30. 2024.  A visitor from Betelgeuse converses with a group of non-Trumpians, trying to make sense of why anyone would vote for convicted felon Donald in a country that calls itself a democracy. His conclusion: Donald's supporters are part of a cult that denies and defies all norms of conventional politics and behavior.  If they understand that putting him in power would mean deconstructing their government and Constitution, it's of no concern––because the cult leader says it's Ok and, what the hell, he was elected president once before. The only way out of imploding the country is for democrats to vote in unprecedented numbers on November 4th. And even then, the cult leader and his cultists will fight the results in any way they can. And it will get ugly. But not as ugly as destroying American democracy. 

CLR Show 1951. Air Date July 26, 2024. Between the Republican National Convention and voter concern over Donald's attempted assassination it would be reasonable to expect Donald and republicans generally to have experienced a significant bump in their numbers. This is typically the case for American political parties. But just the opposite has happened. What was a 4-point lead over Biden nationally, before and after the RNC convention has evaporated into a dead heat or a one-point trailing of Harris just 2 days into her campaign. What should have been a net 10-point bump can be validly construed as a 15-point lost opportunity deficit. Harris has the wind to her back, a positive message for the country and is rapidly re-coalescing the traditional democratic winning constituency pool. Net, net: This election could produce a 1972 McGovern-like disaster for Donald and his minions. (But we'll play the games just the same!) With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.      

CLR Show 1950. Air Date July 23, 2024.  In the space of 24-hours the newly minted Kamala Harris presidential campaign has raised more than $100 million dollars, shattering all presidential fund raising records and witness to a conscious choice of hope over hopelessness on the part of democrats nationwide. Donald and his boy Robiin are now reduced to railing against hope, not a physically declining Joe Biden. It will be lies and grievances against truth and hope. And this is, literally, just day one. 

CLR Show 1949. Air Date July 19, 2024. Too many democrats are making hopeless sounds, all but conceding the election to the soulless forces of Trump sycophancy. But it has been proven, time and time again over the millennia, that, especially in moments of profound importance when the need for change is all the more intense, it is always darkest just before the dawn. For those who are currently fearing that darkness, take hope. And prepare for the political speech of a lifetime by Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention to democratic cheers and tears of joy and hopefulness like we've never seen or heard them before. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.

CLR Show 1948. Air Date July 16, 2024. Of late, democrats have been experiencing and all too often eloquently inferring their hopelessness over the apparent normalization of Donald Trump and all things Trumpian to the point where it all sounds like a dry run for a concession speech. That is infuriating. Not once has the attempted assassination of Donald been decried for what it was and is: the latest use of a weapon of mass destruction that should never have been allowed on the streets in the first place, and that is supported by Donald. He is not a hero; he is the latest target of failed republican policies and their callous disregard for the safety of all Americans. The only difference between Donald and the countless others that have been killed by automatic rifles is that he survived the attempt. The bandage he will wear on his ear as a sign of triumph must be converted into a badge of dishonor and willful disdain on the part of a convicted felon. Why is no one else telling it this way? Wake up, democrats! 

CLR Show 1947. Air Date July 12, 2024. Give the conundrum facing democrats and Joe Biden as we struggle to define the top of the ticket, it might be useful to paraphrase the St. Francis prayer, to wit: 'Lord give me the strength to change the things I can change, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to recognize the difference between the two.' Implicit in this prayer––if it ever existed as such––is the presence and choice of hope over hopelessness. Challenges like the one democrats face in choosing the top of the ticket and defeating Donald Trump cannot be approached with a sense of foreboding and doom. They must be faced with a positive 'can do' attitude. And it's damn high time democrats understood that. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.