Democrats are a fretful bunch. Always have been. I certainly am. What I am noticing in these last few days of the campaign though, is an absence of a freak-out. It's a vibe. It's only weakly tethered to data. It comes from the top, from Kamala herself. It's present in the punditocracy. It's not exactly optimism or confidence, but it's closer to that than to doom and gloom. I got it: "calm". That's the mot juste, there is a calm among Democrats. It has filtered down to me.This vibe is reinforced by an equal and opposite vibe from trumpie. Just yesterday:
“Pennsylvania is cheating...
That's beyond doom and gloom, that's desperation. He knows he's losing Pennsylvania. He is going to lose Pennsylvania. And Michigan and Wisconsin and the presidency.
