I know that Trump supporters — to say nothing of people who simply find Kamala Harris laughably contemptible — are feeling fairly cheerful in these last few weeks before the election. Given my native disposition, that sort of thing tends to send a shiver of premonitory fear down my spine. You always ride highest before the fall, after all, and every poll in this race remains agonizingly close; seven states genuinely could go either way. (In particular, all of us when analyzing polls have become far too comfortable with tacitly assuming that Trump will not just perform to his numbers but outperform them. Maybe, maybe not.) I like to think of myself as the lowly slave appointed to whisper in the triumphant general’s ear as he parades through the adoring masses of Rome: “Memento mori.” Do not forget, you too are mortal.
As it turns out, Kamala Harris’s campaign is now doing the same thing! Except that, instead of whispering, they are simpering it out loud in every public appearance and on a very different, rather literal level. Yes, in the final stages of the 2024 campaign, Harris and her surrogates are sputtering through their newest closing argument to the American people: Donald Trump is really, really old.
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