With hours to go before America votes, Trump’s surrogates spent their time building up a myth around a squirrel.
Last week a squirrel died in New York. Over the weekend, the squirrel became a symbol and martyr on the right. As people line up to vote, ballots are cast, and undecided voters make their final decisions on who to vote for, Donald Trump’s surrogates like Elon Musk are tweeting about a squirrel.P’Nut the squirrel was internet famous. Mark Longo rescued it seven years ago and raised it after its mother died.
P’Nut captured the imagination of the right, especially the extremely online right, in the waning days of the election. Here, they said, was an example of Democratic government overreach. Longo, upset about the death of his beloved P’Nut, fueled the fire. “They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours. They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was.
The Post has published multiple stories about the squirrel since the raid. The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journalon its X account. Elon Musk posted about the squirrel an absurd number of times over the weekend and, as of this writing,is a call to vote for P’Nut. A fake statement from the Trump campaign about the dead squirrel went viral but was quickly debunked by thein a post on X.
Well, no. Should Trump win it won’t be because of a last-minute bump from people upset that the state of New York killed an internet-famous squirrel. P’Nut is yet another symptom of the terminally online insanity that has plagued the GOP in recent years. Part of what ended Ron DeSantis’s bid for the Presidential nomination in January was his staff’s infatuation with weird online culture war bullshit. He obsessed over Disney which read as weak and weird to normal voters.
If Trump loses this election it will be, in part, because his campaign lost itself in the sauce of the online world. As the election entered the final stretch, Trump and his team spent their days tweeting about squirrels and garbage. It’s not a compelling pitch.Elon Musk Built an Army of Pro-Trump Extremists to Spread Voter Fraud Conspiracy TheoriesMusk’s lawyers are doing everything they can to delay legal action around his $1 million voter lottery until after election day.
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