With regard to the presidential election, there are no undecided voters in the United States at this moment. Not a one. There are voters who will cast a ballot for the diametrical opposites of Trump or Harris and a handful who will waste their vote on a third-party pout. And then there are a mass of people who despite all the evidence available that American democracy itself is at stake, don't care enough to show up and do the job of citizens. That's it. I'm not calling any voter at this point undecided. That's too nice a word for indifference and ignorance; it wrongly implies ongoing engagement and thought.

It is long past the moment when mainstream journalistic assessments of the Republican nominee to helm this republic should plainly refer to him as a fascist. The hate-speech erupting from him day after day is no longer simply provocative or extreme or confrontational, or even fascistic or approximating such. It is a straight-up call to authoritarianism in service of raw hate and fear. Donald Trump is now openly and demonstrably a fascist and he has brought our nation to the brink. American journalism has one job here. And with a handful of exceptions, it is imploding.