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I like to look back on the morning after last night, but I want to offer a few random thoughts on the election today — on what we quaintly used to call Election Day — before the polls open this morning. Herewith a set of reflections in the form of bullet points.

• This may be the weirdest election in American history. It is certainly the weirdest election we have ever lived through. The story of Biden’s defenestration by the powers-that-be in the Democratic Party has yet to be told. In the information age, that too is weird — even weirder than Tim Walz.

• The story must reflect poorly on the Democrats and the mainstream press. Over the past four years they have lied and covered up President Biden’s degraded mental condition. Back in 2019 and 2020, I set the over/under on his capacity at 40 percent. One of the fact-check or media rating organizations subsequently submitted a list of questions including one that asked on what basis we stated Biden’s limited capacity as a fact. The evidence of our eyes was apparently not acceptable.

• Whoever wins, the margin of victory will be multifactorial. However, I wonder whether Harris or Trump has been most successful embodying the negative against the other side. Whoever it is will be the winner of the election.

• We think we have a good handle on what Vice President Harris “thinks” about any given issue and the people she would appoint to high office to implement her views. However, her campaign has sought to conceal her current views. They are treated like a state secret. Alex Thompson of Axios has fruitlessly labored to extract a statement from the campaign on a laundry list of these issues. He summarized his project this week in “The “no comment’ candidate: Harris clouds how she’d govern.”

• Although we can infer Harris’s views of the issues from positions she has previously stated, she must be the most vacuous candidate ever to be nominated by a major party for president. She is a tribute to the DEI phenomenon as well as a walking statement of the case against it.

• If Harris wins, the Democrats’ promotion of the sacramental view of abortion would be key. They are the party of abortion as they were the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

• When Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate in late August, I knew he wouldn’t wear well over time, but I feared the time might be too short for him to wear out his welcome. I need not have worried. In addition to everything else, in the glare of the national spotlight Walz has been exposed as a compulsive liar. His exposure should disgrace the Star Tribune and the rest of the Minnesota media. Below is a selfie of the Star Tribune crew taken on their way to cover the Democratic National Convention.

• In the event that Harris loses the election, she may reflect that she could have helped her cause if she had asked Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to be her running mate — and not just in Pennsylvania. Instead she and her campaign deferred to the anti-Semitism within the party. Whether she wins or loses, Harris deserves to lose.

• If President Trump wins, his election will be highly unusual. He would be only the second president elected to nonconsecutive terms. Quick — without looking — who was the first? He would also be the oldest candidate ever elected to the office. Joe Biden — he paved the way.

• As a businessman, Elon Musk has proved himself a genius and a benefactor of humanity. With his purchase of X, he has become the invaluable champion of free speech online. His support for Trump in the 2024 campaign requires special recognition. He is a great American who understands the stakes of the election.

• President Trump has a personal interest in the outcome of this election. If he wins. he can kill the two pending federal criminal lawsuits against him. I thought the Democrat lawfare against Trump would severely disadvantage him in the election, but it has played no significant role at all.

• If Trump wins, I think he will pardon Hunter Biden (assuming Hunter’s old man doesn’t do it on his way out the door). If Harris wins, will she pardon Trump? I doubt it, but I wonder.

• The campaign has reminded us over and over that the Democratic Party has become the party of the elites. Trump has transformed the Republican Party into a working class party. President Reagan got us rolling in that direction, but we lost the thread. Trump’s ability to identify with the cause of the working class is a gift.

• If Trump loses, it won’t be for lack of effort. He has campaigned relentlessly despite two assassination attempts and the resulting complications. Yesterday he held three or four rallies yesterday. At Trump’s Pittsburgh rally Megyn Kelly spoke on Trump’s behalf. Let’s give Megyn the last word this morning. In her compelling manner, Megyn invokes the reality principle. In a few minutes she nails the case for Trump.