[gaijin]

This Scott Adams guy has gone back and forth numerous times, he is a Vichy France kind of guy.

this is like the 3rd or 4th switch.

the feeling he gives me is like the feeling when parisians are cheering Allied troops, marching in.

it’s empty and a little insulting.

[AZLiberty]

Adams has positioned himself as an observer, above the fray. He has framed this election as a matter of persuasion, not policies. From the beginning he saw Trump as the master persuader, and for a while saw Trump's successful positioning of Hillary as a crook as the winning card. Unfortunately for Trump, the Hillary team pulled out the monster card, persuading some fraction of the public that Trump is a sexual, racial, and financial monster.

I see this in my otherwise rational 30ish daughter. Trump's having talked about grabbing someone's pussy confirms her growing belief that Trump is an Adamsian "monster", totally unfit not only for the presidency but for any position in civil society. She has become a single-issue voter, where the single issue is locker room talk. Though she learned to swear like a sailor after leaving home, my daughter is a neo-Victorianist.

Adams wishes the election were about policy, but knows it's basically about the ability of each side to frame the other side as something too horrible to vote for. His pro-forma "endorsements" have been about protecting his social position and producing comic effect.