I'll wager that most American voters, no matter who wins the presidency next week, will feel a measure of relief when the political ads on television and radio and social media and cellphone texts finally go quiet.
Before we get there, let's note that anyone spending millions of dollars in just over a week before a major election while doing everything possible to hide where the money comes from and goes is not playing honest with you.
Meet "RBG PAC," a last-minute political action committee that has a lot to say about former President Donald Trump and abortion and almost nothing to say about who is paying for all that. The committee, registered by a former Trump White House staffer, reported on Friday that it will spend $20 million on digital ads, mailers and text messages.
The "RBG" refers to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a tiny titan of jurisprudence so iconic that her initials still project plenty of power four years after her death. Using her image and moniker to defend Trump's successful effort to undo constitutional protections for abortion rights has stoked understandable outrage.
Trump faces a political backlash this year after pushing to limit access to abortion as president. That anger crosses party lines as the majority of American voters – Republicans and Democrats – support reproductive rights. And this comes as Vice President Kamala Harris puts abortion access at the center of her presidential campaign while winning over moderate Republicans who reject Trump.
Trump's allies, with their shady invocation of RBG, may further stoke those negative repercussions in the days before Tuesday's election. They have it coming. Just ask Ginsburg's........