It’s Time To Ditch the Conventional Wisdom in this Election, by Auguste Meyrat

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 3, 2024

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and department chair in north Texas. He has a BA in Arts and Humanities from University of Texas at Dallas and an MA in Humanities from the University of Dallas.

Yes, J.D. Vance won the vice-presidential debate. But will it make any difference?

It goes without saying that Sen. J.D. Vance won the vice presidential debate on Tuesday. True to form, he responded to his predictably hostile moderators with confidence and grace. All throughout, he showed off his intelligence, empathy, and personal discipline. He even made his opponent feel all warm and fuzzy by the end of it.

By contrast, Gov. Tim Walz was nervous, scatterbrained, and full of excuses and lies. Even though the moderators did what they could to help him by ignoring his abysmal record as a governor and his stolen valor, he couldn’t articulate any clear reason why Americans should vote for him and Harris. Although many have already seized on his verbal flub when he claimed to be “friends with school shooters,” perhaps an even more embarrassing moment was his weird rambling response to a question about one of his trips to China. …

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