But after her brilliant selection of Walz, we started seeing less of him and more of Liz Cheney. Harris apparently bowed to pressure from the likes of Barry Diller and abstained from embracing the heroic Lina Kahn and extolling her achievements. She didn’t mention our climate crisis. She wouldn’t break from Biden on Gaza. Her approval ratings started to slump and yet she and her team didn’t get it.
94% of Republicans voted for Trump. They are a lockstep, party over country voting bloc. The Dems have time and time again placed their electoral hopes in the GOP, and that is folly.
Harri’s campaign was dazzling in its manipulation of stage craft: it was vibrant and, yes, it was positive, whereas Trump’s of course was a Halloween party with taps for America as its obbligato.
The American electorate is irrational and ignorant; workers voted for the man who wants to crush them. Instead of better oligarchs like Diller, they will now be ruled by a cartel of evil, sociopathic, fascist oligarchs like Thiel and Musk.
Sexism played a part in her defeat, although the Democrats still do not understand that identity politics will only take them so far.
Biden waited much too long to step down and he never ballyhooed his own achievements.
As David Hogg tweeted: “Time for some big changes to the Democratic Party.”