Despite the menacing negativity emanating from Donald Trump, we should not lose sight of the very real possibility that the country will elect its first female president.
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This would be a big deal at any time, let alone when the widely tipped alternative is a bullish alpha-male felon (pre-sentencing) who, when last in office, went about strongarming electoral officials and installing vassal judges.
Trump's tame Supreme Court would pay off big-time by rescinding women's constitutional right to abortion and by cloaking him in sweeping new immunities.
Dissenting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor branded the judicial adventurism of her colleagues a mockery, which elevated a president to the status "a king above the law".
Dare to imagine then that in becalming this cruel sea, Americans remember the defeated president's plainly criminal phone call to Georgia's Secretary of State two months after polling day to "find" him 11,780 votes. And they remember too, the deadly insurrection four days later.
Consider the possibility that enough Americans put country and constitution before the fleeting emotional satisfaction of venting at the government for obscene wealth disparities, a largely absent social safety net, flat wages, or a porous Southern border that Congressional Republicans refused to fix.
A victory for Vice President Kamala Harris would be a clear repudiation of Trump's hyper-masculine project of victim politics. It would preference diversity over disunity and country over cult.
As CNN contributor Van Jones has noted pithily, "he gets to be lawless, she has to be flawless".
It would recognise that patriots waving flags are not patriots at all if their allegiance is to a godless egomaniacal swindler who thinks nothing of breaking electoral laws, shredding the constitution and........