This US Presidential election cycle is both interesting and disturbing. There is an incumbent who is truly hated by the mainstream media, the increasingly unhinged Democrat Party, the violent far Left, Silicon Valley and by others who have a knee-jerk but completely uniformed view of President Trump. Despite this onslaught of hatred for President Trump he seems to not just holding onto support but gaining support among those groups that may not have traditionally voted for a Republican Presidential candidate, such as gay men.

With all that is going on in America today from the way that the Covid situation has been dealt with to the violent thugs of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, this was already a historically significant election. I don’t recall a Presidential election in my lifetime where there has been such sustained and demented opposition from the media and political Establishment. I’m not sure that even Nixon or Reagan was subjected to so much often baseless and uninformed hatred that is mostly coming from the Left and centre-Left and aimed at Mr Trump.

This is shaping up to be an election of great import, one that Mr Trump may not win if any part is played by the all too easy to manipulate postal vote system that Democrats are increasingly getting behind. Mr Trump is right to be concerned about the effect of fraudulent postal votes on the result of the election, he need only point to Britain’s experience with postal votes on demand, to be able to illustrate the problems with postal voting. If I was an American Republican, or even just an ordinary American (which I am not) who wants to protect all that is good about the USA, then I’d be dragging myself down to the polling station even if I had two broken legs, in order to vote in person and help to nullify or counterbalance any bent postal votes. Not voting should not be an option. It was low turnout, along with postal votes and whipped communal votes that landed the UK’s capital city London, with the dangerous clown Sadiq Khan as Greater London Mayor. Apathy I hope will not lead the USA to install as President someone who is likely to be far worse and far more destructive than someone like Khan has proven to be for London.

As I said this is increasing a crucial election, an election where America stands at the crossroads of a decision between authoritarian statism and liberty. It’s one of the most interesting US elections of my lifetime and it’s now got even more interesting.

The death of the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, so close to the Presidential election in November, thrown an enormous, spitting, scratching cat into an already restive flock of pigeons. Justice Ginsburg, a notably liberal justice appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Bill Clinton has supported policies that have contributed in some part to America’s current problems, such as Affirmative Action and has enraged social conservatives with her views of abortion. She was also not that friendly to the Second Amendment and was seen as an opponent to those who wished the right to bear arms for self defence. She has however, to be a bit ‘glass half full rather than glass half empty’, been a prime mover in changes to legislation and policy that allowed American women to enter branches of the armed forces and military training institutes that previously they were excluded from.

President Trump now has a vacancy to fill in the Supreme Court and it will be highly interesting to see how he approaches this, bearing in mind the short time before the US Presidential election. Will he do as many of his supporters want him to do and just fill the seat and be damned and wait for confirmation from the legislature later after the election? Or, will he wait until the election is over and make a appointment then should he win? Either course of action in my opinion carries dangers. If President Trump takes the first course of action then he risks the Democrats making it into an issue, more than they are already. The Democrats must know and fear that if Mr Trump appoints and is successful in getting confirmation for a centre-right Constitution-minded justice for the court, then even if they win this or another election, there’s a fair chance that the socialism that the Democrats now openly espouse, could be blocked by the Supreme Court.

By appointing now Mr Trump does risk energising a Democrat campaign that has so far been moribund and fronted up by uninspiring, questionable and indeed creepy candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency. However, with the absolute state of the Democrats recently and the ongoing civil disorder in Democrat run cities and states, making an overt fuss over a pre-Election Trump Supreme Court appointment may draw the attentions of American voters to the problems in the Democrats own political backyard? If Mr Trump waits and wins the Presidency but loses the legislature houses then his nomination for Supreme Court Justice could be blocked.

There are risks and dangers in Mr Trump either nominating now or waiting until after November, but also potential opportunities and it is fascinating to see and wonder about which path he will take. There could be an electoral benefit in triggering the SJW’s, identity politics grievance mongers and thugs that I am increasingly identifying with the Democrats, their over the top reaction may disgust and frighten Americans into voting for Mr Trump, but only time will tell which action Mr Trump will take and what the response will be from his opponents.