Right wing operatives, desperate to make silly selfies seem like evidence of gasp!
This is either par for the every accusation is an admissionMAGARepublican playbook or merely ironic.
Sami Gharbia once said, humor is the first step to break taboos and fears.
Vice President Kamala Harris walks out into a packed rally in Glendale, Arizona on August 9, 2024.Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images
The lure of the authoritarian is that he is the Strongman, as Ruth Ben Ghiat hassagely written.
The audition tape of the would-be-dictator is of alpha male vying for the role of making things happen.
They treasure norms of civility and distrust provocative, aggressive language.
Generally speaking, then, they have adopted what I call a low-dominance political style.
Gretchen Whitmer; and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Enter into this all-woman pantheon,Kamala Harris.
It goes on to remind readers who Trump is: loser of the 2020 election by 7 million votes.
Harris seems to relish in equal parts roasting her opponent and line dancing among her supporters.
No longer Les Miserables, Harris-Walz have moved us onto Mamma Mia.
And Democratic activists, plus previously disaffected base voters, are now loving the dancing queen.
This comes just in time because, as her vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov.
Tim Walz, rightlydeclared, I know I am preaching to the choir.
A damn big and beautiful choir.
But practice is over, people, the choir needs to sing.
Malarkey aside, the Biden campaign was a largely serious affair.
People are lining up in the summer heat to see this new production.
Of course, its not expressed as such.
This idea has reappeared by many names, triangulation, centrism, and most recentlyPopularism.
And sure, that feels like super logical advice support things people like and they will like you!
(Spoiler alert: the plurality always selects that option.)
But in reality, people can only tell us what they think that they think.
Further, what breaks through to the average voter about elections arent detailed policy platforms.
But in full awareness of what it takes to defeat him.
Anat Shenker-Osorio is a political strategist and communications researcher for progressive campaigns.
