Democrats Pivot
The joy is over, the media blitz failed, so...Trump's a fascist...again!
The joy is over.
The vibes have evaporated.
Kamala’s media blitz has tanked her polls as Americans did not like what they saw.
So what’s left to do with the election mere weeks away?
PIVOT!
Lo and behold, after telling everybody that Donald Trump was just really weird, he is once again a fascist threat to Democracy!
So how did we get here?
The Change Up
If you’d only been following American politics since July 2024, then Kamala Harris’ campaign might have struck you as a breath of fresh air. Sure, it was light on policy, but there were promises of moderate policies, calls for unity, and messages of forward-looking optimism and hopeful patriotism…it’s almost enough to make one forget four years of unpopular governance by the Biden-Harris administration!
But there’s one little problem…it was a lie.
It’s a carefully constructed communication campaign built around an empty vessel of a candidate who is sufficiently compliant to memorize all the lines she’s fed while doing everything she’s told to hide any of her authentic self as a person or politician. But this Frankenstein freak show built by PR specialists around focus groups, candidate polling, and coordinated with the praetorian guard media had been fooling a lot of people.
It started with the media finally telling the truth about Joe Biden. For the first time in ages, they were honest and critical about the Democratic Party. Journalists were doing their jobs and actually reporting. It was a bit refreshing and made the world start to feel a bit more normal.
Trump’s first assassination attempt forced the media and politicians to all take a step back and admit that the rhetoric had gone too far. They acknowledged that calling Trump a Nazi for all these years probably wasn’t really great given that it’s neither objectively true, nor did they actually believe it.
Then they do the bait and switch and suddenly Kamala is a nearly unrecognizable candidate that’s full of hope and joy and moderation! And she said just enough of the things that most Americans want to hear to give people the sense that this just might be the path back to a more sane world. Heck, we even had two national political conventions that were mostly positive in the messages they put forward.
After doing almost no real interviews for nearly two months, the ascension of Kamala culminated in the debate where soundly beat Donald Trump with the assistance of two partisan-hack ABC moderators, some coaching from Hollywood, and Trump’s inability to keep his cool after some predictable taunting.
Yup, Democrats were riding high.
But was it real?
If you trust your common sense, you knew back in July that she was a terrible candidate. A politician that crashed and burned every time the media took “another look at here”.
They gave her a look early on in the Democratic primary in 2019. And nobody liked her. Then they circled back and gave her a second look when the debates started. And nobody liked her. Then they gave her a third look when she was nominated for VP. And nobody liked her…so they sent her into the basement for the entire campaign. Then she became VP and they gave her yet another look. And nobody liked her…
The Media Blitz
But her campaign was so high on it’s own vibes, or maybe it was panicking over bad internal polls, that they decided to send Kamala out on a media blitz. Interviews, TV, podcasts, townhalls…they sent her out there to do it all.
And then something really weird happened…her polls tanked.
I mean…who could have predicted that having Kamala repeatedly saying “I come from a middle class family” or tossing yet another word salad, was a bad idea? Not even SNL could resist mocking her…
And just like that…“brat” Kamala was over…RIP to the joy and vibes.
And just like that, the Democrats were left with nothing but their predictable pivot.
The Pivot
It would be sad if it wasn’t so cynically Hillary-ous!
Really, it’s all that remains for Democrats as a campaign issue that they can prosecute in the court of public opinion.
Trump is a fascist (and let’s not forget racist!), are going to be the Kamala Harris campaign for the next three weeks.
It’s been their campaign for the past 9 years so they’ll be able to ramp it up really fast.
It’s going to be escalating, wall to wall coverage of Trump as a fascist..as if it were a 5-alarm fire!
The one soundbyte that got the most attention was, the normally sane, James Carville sounding the alarm that Trump is Nazi…it’s really all they’ve got left.
There are however a few problems…
They’ve been saying this for nearly a decade…there isn’t anybody that hasn’t heard this case against Trump a hundred times already
People keep trying to assassinate Trump so people may be put off by raising the temperature with such rhetoric
They were calling Trump just really weird only a month ago…were they lying then or are they lying now? Or did they just get over a transient case of amnesia?
Everybody can see what’s going on. It’s pathetically obvious, not to mention extremely cynical
But alas, I’ll say it again: it’s all they’ve got left.
This is what happens when you run terrible candidates and try to put forth BS narratives that defy common sense.
It’ll be a rough three weeks until Nov 5th…the temperature is going to be raised to an 11/10…and then the same genius will pontificate on how we happened upon political violence. But that’s a story for another time.
And by the way, don’t forget to vote!
"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."
--Charles Krauthammer
propping up and promoting Kamala Harris is like trying to polish a turd! The harder you try to get a turd shiny the worst it gets. In fact, it is impossible, it becomes a complete mess.