there's no position on "the issues" that could win my support for Donald Trump or JD Vance. their flaws, in my mind, go beyond what "issues" can remedy. i think most of the electorate behaves this way, although a substantial faction has diametric views about *who* is beyond support. 1/

yet so much electoral analysis insists on explaining results by issue positions. if only we'd moderated on this, doubled down on that, the polls say they'd like that! 2/

it has come to seem a bit bizarre to me. /fin