Is This the Most Important Election Ever?

 

A cynic might respond, “yes, since the last one”.

To be sure, each side predicts Armageddon if the other prevails.

Democrats forecast the consolidation of Trump’s lawless, authoritarian hold on America while Republicans can see the radical Left using the “Trojan [Biden] Horse” to give power to Green New Leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

There is hyperbole for both that reaches fear-mongering.  But there is a difference.  From the perspective of The Sensible Conservative, the risk of Trump’s re-election is short-lived – his personality will be an upsetting factor for only four more years.  If Biden prevails, however, leftward (so-called progressivism) policy changes may prove irreversible (assuming Democrats are in control of Congress, too).

But America will survive, regardless.  Such declaratory confidence would have seemed odd and foolish, for instance, in 1800 when the Jefferson Republicans were accused by Adams Federalists of seeking to bring the horrors of the French Revolution here while they, in turn, were supposedly plotting to establish a monarchy.

Or, how about the election of 1860, when the survival of the United States as a nation truly hung in the balance?

And what about 1932 as the land was in a severe economic depression and the prospect of Communist-inspired revolution was a reasonable worry?

Yes, America has confronted more daunting challenges that it does this November.

One would hope that the contest would cause both camps to reduce the scary rhetoric.  Dream on!  Because this is the most important election ever!