Bastiat’s Window made no endorsement in the 2024 presidential election—nor in any other election before or since. We’re unlikely to endorse any candidates in the future—largely for three reasons described below—futility, disdain, and regret.
FUTILITY
One reason for not offering endorsements, cited many times in this newsletter, is a profound disinterest in engaging in futile activities. Anthropologists have reported the existence of voters who were undecided in the Trump/Clinton, Trump/Biden, and Trump/Harris elections, but I never met any such individuals. It is unlikely that a single undecided voter exists within a 50-mile radius of the White House. I live just five miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and yet, for mysterious reasons, at each presidential election, dewy-eyed young activists show up at my front door, literature in hand, hoping to present the case for one party’s nominee or the other. I have two theories to explain their motivations:
These youths are naïve and narcissistic enough to believe themselves capable of persuading a DC-area resident to change his or her vote; or
They hold no such delusions and are merely compiling an enemies list—cataloging who should be subjected to lawfare or doxxing once their party assumes power.
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