I don’t get it. Rather like Mendel:

I keep hearing that young Black and Latino men might be turning to Trump. For example: 

A number of Democrats associated with the Harris campaign have looked at this phenomenon closely and concluded that the main culprit is a sophisticated and precisely targeted disinformation campaign on social media platforms, especially Twitch. This is crucial for people whose only source of election information is social media. The main target appears to be young Black men. Many of them feel that progress on issues they care about is much too slow and the disinformation campaign blames Joe Biden and Harris for dragging their feet. Here, Donald Trump’s image as someone who ignores rules, laws, and other barriers works for him. The pitch can be: “He can get things done because he will just trample on anyone or anything in his way.”
Some surveys have shown that young people aren’t really tuned in much to politics yet. Right now, for many of them, going back to school and getting settled has priority. Once early voting starts, many of them will begin to pay attention.

Don’t these idiots realize that Trump hates, hates, hates both Blacks and Latinos? How low can their information be?

When I was in high school I didn’t think of myself as particularly tuned in to news or politics. I tended to skim the news, I’d read the headlines and the first few paragraphs of the front page, but seldom following through to the inner pages. 

And yet I could name most if not all of the members of the president’s cabinet and I knew who my representative and senators were.

That was thanks to our tenth grade history teacher Mr. Kugle.

Our other social studies teachers also went over current events, but Mr. Kugle really emphasized them. Very often the first part of the history session was devoted to the latest developments. And there was a lot going in in 1964-65. Not perhaps as much as right now, but it sure seemed like a lot at the time.

Don’t today’s teachers instill that same interest in current goings on that our Mr. Kugle did?

I don’t get it.

It doesn’t take much to realize that Trump hates minorities and immigrants. 

Or how about what’s happening in Springfield. Don’t they hear about that?

For Jamie McGregor, a businessman in Springfield, Ohio, speaking favorably about the Haitian immigrants he employs has come to this: death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants.

They came by the hundreds — phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other people they had never met. “The owner of McGregor Metal can take a bullet to the skull and that would be 100 percent justified,” said one message left on the company voice mail.

To defend himself and his family, Mr. McGregor has had to violate his own vow to never own a gun. “I have struggled with the fact that now we’re going to have firearms in our house — like, what the hell?” said Mr. McGregor, who makes parts for cars, trucks and tractors.

All because of the lies that Trump and Vance are spreading about Haitian immigrants eating pets.

OK, forget about Black and Latino men.

What about all the others who are planning to vote Republican. Is the coming election really as close as the polls claim it is?

Part of me wants to believe that the polls have to be wrong, that really Kamala Harris is going to win easily, but I don’t want to delude myself.

Meanwhile, I’m left pondering, how can so many of my fellow Americans be this hateful? If they really are this hateful. Or can they possibly be so ignorant?

Is a puzzlement.

(The preceding might seem a bit incoherent, but I did have a point I wanted to make. Just not sure I made it. However, I did remove all the profanity from the first draft.)