Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 225

So what do we think will happen in the final debate tonight? We can expect Trump to be Trump because, despite all the pundit talk over the last four years of him "pivoting" or putting on a different face for a certain purpose, he's never shown that he knows how to be anything but the Trump that thrills his base. So he'll be asked about Health Care and he'll rant about Hunter Biden. And he'll be asked about COVID-19 and he'll yell he's done everything right and he'll bitch the press hasn't asked "Sleepy Joe" about various imagined scandals.

He's really not running against Joe Biden, you know. He's running against The Press and all those powerful forces that have conspired to make him look like an outta-control, self-obsessed, incompetent liar. That seems to be his closing argument; that and the claim that The Pandemic is almost over.

And I'm absolutely not ruling out something bizarre like Trump walking off the debate or refusing to participate or showing up for it dressed as Katharine Hepburn or something…