I was assured several days ago that Republicans would welcome a race against Kamala Harris because they had lots of ways to attack her. So far the attacks have been off-the-bottom-shelf specials noting that, hmm, let’s see…Apparently she’s a woman and she’s Black, so she slept her way to the top when she wasn’t being promoted for being Black. Yeah, that’s some really potent stuff, but if Republicans think that’s going to kill enthusiasm, they’re in for a shock. What worked against Hillary in ’16 is merely generating backlash now.
Most of that backlash is coming against Trump’s charisma-free VP choice, JD Vance, who frankly deserves every bit of shit the media can fling at him. He doesn’t even have to say anything – there are plenty of videos of his past utterances for reporters to dig through, like the one where he said the Democrats are run by “childless cat ladies.” Only Trump can get away with saying shit like that, as countless conservatives have learned the hard way. Vance is not only dead weight on the ticket, he makes it harder for Trump to pretend he doesn’t know about the Heritage Foundation’s plan for an American Hellscape, Project 2025; Vance wrote the introduction to a book by the plan’s architect. If these people are the master race, why don’t they ever do anything that shows it?
This article raises a point about that SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity I hadn’t considered: It opens the door for Trump to steal anything he wants without fear of prosecution. If he gets re-elected it will be the greatest crime spree anyone’s ever seen, and he’ll brag about it.
I’m sure you’ve noticed the change in the atmosphere since Biden dropped out, and I’m not talking about barometric pressure. The Democrats have, almost certainly by accident, tapped into the fervent desire for change that has marked elections all around the globe this year and, as the Rude Pundit notes, have seized the narrative.
See, we live in a time of vibes, where people want to part of where the vibes are. We want the feeling of belonging, of community, of actual joy without the burden of hate. We want to feel like we’re moving forward, not, you know, going back. And that’s a powerful attractor. When we get more of them post-Biden, polls are going to show a tight race, possibly with Harris a little ahead. Then comes the Democratic National Convention, and the vibes will continue.
I have one more thing that Harris offers and it relates to Trump and the MAGA bullshit and JD Vance and all of it. It’s a simple idea: Don’t you want all of that to be over already? God, don’t you want it to be done and gone? We can do that. We’ve already defied all the expectations about how this was supposed to go. We can defy them all the way through to turning the goddamn page at last on the old narrative and living in the new one.
The floor’s yours.