Millions of Americans have a disability of some kind. Vicious attacks on Fetterman remind us of the bigotry they all face.

The NYT is going after him like he owes them money.

I’m worried about this race. I just can’t imagine enough “independent swing voters” — the kinds of people who, inexplicably, still can’t choose a side — being knowledgable enough about disabilities, and the many tools we have these days to accommodate them, or forgiving enough toward Fetterman’s situation.

I read some of those “swing voter” opinions in the NYT. Good lord. Even the supposedly “intellectual” ones don’t know their head from their ass.

They tend to fall into two categories:

1. The “economically conservative, socially liberal” folks who would really vote for a Party that would vote to end the 230+ year American experiment in democracy if Putin throws a tantrum or the stock market hiccups a week before the election.

2. The crypto-Republicans like Ross Douthat who will claim they despise just about everything the GOP has come to stand for — “but abortion.” Their votes are not actually up for grabs, but they’ll happily posture like it is in order to lob grenades at Democrats about their preferred niche wedge issue.

I watched the Fetterman-Oz debate. Fetterman’s speech is impaired, certainly, but it’s also evident he knows his stuff. He is not, as Republican memes would have it, some rando on death’s door wheeled in from a nursing home or hospital. He has experience, he has clear and consistent positions, and I had no trouble understanding what those positions are.

Dr. Oz, on he other hand — a practiced TV personality, a fad “miracle cure” pusher, who’s never held a government position before but who carries the all-powerful Trump talisman — was a polished advocate of the GOP’s current mix of fad miracle cures.

Such as the idea that the government shouldn’t even have to raise the minimum wage, because once Republican policies are implemented, money will start falling from the sky and universal prosperity will ensue. Literally anyone who has toiled for substinence in this economy at any point over the last 40 years of Reaganomics could tell you that’s hogwash.

If you want to raise the minimum wage, vote Fetterman. If you think folks can still get by on $7.25/hour, vote Oz. It’s that simple.