The Trolling Election

Voters are presented with a choice between two gratingly flip campaigns that are consumed with frivolities.

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Left: Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall meeting in Lancaster, Pa., October 20, 2024. Right: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally in Atlanta, Ga., October 24, 2024.

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This election has given new meaning to the phrase “trash talk.”

In the waning days of this campaign, America’s two major political parties have condemned Americans to litigate which party’s voters are, in aggregate, a bigger pile of festering “garbage.” In an effort to put that debate to rest, Donald Trump’s creative campaign put the candidate in a class 2 high-visibility safety vest and sent him off to a photo-op driving garbage truck.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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