On the eve of an important election: Odds and ends from around the Web

Trump train

Here is how CNN described it:

The incident took place in Texas on Friday as the campaign bus was traveling from San Antonio to Austin as part of a push to urge Biden supporters to cast their ballots on the state's last day of early voting. A Biden campaign official described the motorists' actions as an attempt to slow down the bus and run it off the road.

People in vehicles that were part of a "Trump Train" began yelling profanities and obscenities and then blockaded the entire Biden entourage, according to a source familiar with the incident.

At one point they slowed the tour bus to roughly 20 mph on Interstate 35, the campaign official said. The vehicles slowed down to try to stop the bus in the middle of the highway. The source said there were nearly 100 vehicles around the campaign bus. Biden staffers were rattled by the event, the source said, though no one was hurt.

Trump would tweet his approval on Saturday night:

I LOVE TEXAS! pic.twitter.com/EP7P3AvE8L
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2020

WV’s Putnam Republican Club gave its approval yesterday:

God bless Texas. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/G8yWFecDUO
— Putnam Republican Club (@PutnamWVGOP) October 31, 2020

Yes, it's hysterical!

I thought historian Steve Silberman made the correct point:

As a historian who has written about the Holocaust, I'll tell you: Trump and @FoxNews pundits praising the goons who tried to run the Biden/Harris bus off the road is straight-up fascism. It's not "like" fascism. It's fascism. https://t.co/9qdpQQofTu
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 1, 2020

The obvious contrast

Barack Obama: "Kindness, humility, responsibility, helping somebody else out. That used to be the definition of manliness. Not strutting and showing off. Acting important and bullying people. It used to be being a man meant taking care of other people. Not going around bragging."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 31, 2020

Please vote

Never forget Donald Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle politics, and economic gains to the rich. If we fail to change this when we get the chance, we should expect future Trumps as far as the eye can see.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 2, 2020

Finally, Steve Schmidt tells us that "this is the first time the music of the great Ray Charles has been used in a political ad. Thank you to the Ray Charles Foundation."