MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Michelle Obama just dropped a clue about who will win the election. Simply follow the plain-spoken truth…

No matter how tight the polls are, it feels like Donald Trump is going to win.

After all, why would the left-wing media call him Hitler?

Why else would MSNBC blatantly intercut footage of the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden with Trump’s Sunday MSG event, which was overflowing with middle- and working-class voters — and essentially calling those voters Nazis?

Why else would the New York Times cover the front page of its Sunday op-ed with a huge block type, a font size otherwise reserved for the outbreak of world wars, with what Trump will do if he wins – including “USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS”?

Not to mention the furor over the refusal of both the LA Times and the Washington Post (owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) to endorse either candidate, sending the left into a flurry of canceled subscriptions and virtue signaling on social reached the media.

Author Stephen King: “After five years, I have canceled my subscription to the Washington Post” – a statement King posted on X, which happens to be owned by another Trump-supporting billionaire. The left can’t win by trying.

Yes, even WaPo – the none-too-subtle motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” born after Trump’s 2016 victory – may have reconsidered the stakes.

What does it say when two of America’s largest left-wing newspapers cannot or will not support Kamala Harris over Trump? A man we are told is an irredeemable racist, sexist, xenophobe who poses a threat unlike anything we have ever encountered before?

This is exactly what it says: Billionaire businessmen know a loser when they see one.

This weekend, Harris was the subject of a lengthy profile in the New York Times, briefed by a hundred friends and colleagues who also seemed unable to offer full-throated support. In particular, they noted that “she was not a gifted student” in law school, and that her 2019 presidential election “revealed a person for whom… politics did not come naturally.” She struggled to define herself ideologically.”

As she still does, a struggle that is unbearable to watch. But of course, this NYT piece, “The World According to Kamala Harris,” argued that as a woman of color, everything has been harder for Kamala Harris.

Excuse me? Let’s face it: identity politics may be the only reason why this unimpressive, non-intellectual Queen of Word Salad has risen far beyond her capabilities to possibly become President of the United States.

As Kamala would say, let’s understand how we got here.

At a 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden was backed up to promise a female running mate, and Harris — who had all but called Biden a racist during her own failed campaign — was there, willing to forgive and forget, if not to acknowledge that she never did. believed what she had said in the first place.

Jill Biden reportedly never forgave her. Does anyone really think that she and Joe, who are still sad about his forced ouster, want Harris to win?

The Bidens, the billionaire class, and rational voters everywhere all know that Trump will not unleash the military on American citizens, or “be a dictator on day one,” or persecute his political enemies.

Heck – Trump even said he would consider pardoning Hunter Biden if he were elected!

“I wouldn’t take it off the books,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. “Unlike Joe Biden, despite what they did to me, where they came after me so viciously… I think it’s very bad for our country.”

Look at that. If only the left-wing media would amplify that message. Instead, we had Michelle Obama protest for Harris this weekend, just as her husband has done unsuccessfully against black male voters.

“I hope you forgive me,” Michelle said Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, “if I am a little frustrated that some of us choose to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to blindside us at every opportunity.” ‘

Blind us? At this point we’re just looking for a coherent, specific answer to each question. Only one.

But Michelle says voters worried about the border crisis, rising crime, the shortage of affordable housing and a Middle East on fire should simply lower their expectations.

“We discern Kamala’s answers from interviews [Trump] she doesn’t even have the courage to do that,” she continued.

Please. Trump spoke with Joe Rogan for three hours last week, an appearance that has racked up more than 34 million views on YouTube alone. And this billionaire spoke the language of his working-class followers: MMA fighters, what he learned about UFOs, and his utter awe at moving into the White House and standing in Lincoln’s bedroom.

Trump also noted that, unlike Harris, he can speak discursively before returning to his original thought – what he calls “the weave.”

The vice president, he said, “couldn’t put two sentences together.”

That is an obvious truth. It certainly lands better than hysterical cries of fascism.

Harris has an open invitation to do Rogan’s show, but she doesn’t because she can’t say it at length and off the cuff, and everyone knows it.

She didn’t have the guts to appear at Al Smith’s charity dinner earlier this month, as presidential candidates from every party (except Walter Mondale in 1984) have historically done. Even Trump and Hillary appeared together in 2016 – and that was at the height of “lock her up!”

This year, comedian and host Jim Gaffigan spoke on behalf of the pulse and power brokers in that room.

“Why isn’t Vice President Harris here? I mean… this is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a lay-up for the Democratic candidate.”

Even Kamala’s own events are no longer about her. The headlines from last week’s campaign were dominated by Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, who eventually appeared at a rally to show support but again did not perform.

Have we heard something new – something? – from Kamala herself? Or something that sounds honest? She never really answered what she knew and when about President Biden’s cognitive decline.

She also couldn’t answer a simple question at CNN’s town hall last week about the one piece of dream legislation she would like to pass.

We got this from the poly-sci professor Carol, who had dared to ask: ‘Well, there isn’t just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. Um, there’s still a lot of work to be done, but let’s, let’s – I think part of this, the point that I – the way I think about it is that we have to get past this era of politics and party politics. slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country.”

Yet, according to the Obamas, we are to blame for not keeping up this madness.

And of course, not once has Kamala been asked about her husband, Doug, whose ex-girlfriend has accused him of punching her so hard in the face that she turned around — in public, outside a top gala — and of punching the babysitter during his first marriage.

Instead, time and time again, Harris goes back on her claim to be a protector of girls and women, a claim that much of the mainstream media likes to promote.

These are truly elections between out-of-touch elites and the common man – but only one speaks clearly.