Once the euphoria of finally prying Barnacle Joe Biden off the ticket subsides, Democratic voters should be asking themselves just what their party stands for now.
Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris departs Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport on July 23, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.has improved Dem chances of winning the presidency, but it also represents the completion of a fundamental change in the party. first and foremost with the working class — the party’s base from the days of FDR and Harry Truman.
Harris, by contrast, epitomizes the hyper progressive and out-of-touch California party of George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, their elite Hollywood dinner pals, Silicon Valley gazillionaires, government employee unions and the chattering professional class. These people are devoted to divisive “social justice,” fighting climate change at any cost, being religiously soft on crime, expanding a dependent class through welfare and ruthlessness on identity politics.The Kamala gamble, a major GOP convention bounce and other commentaryThe left’s long march through America’s institutions, especially the universities, played a huge role by pushing boutique culture-war issues to the top of its agenda.
In reaction, the white working class began moving to the GOP at the end of the Reagan years; now Hispanic and black workers are trending that way, too. In this light, it matters a lot less that Harris is the daughter of a black man and an Indian-American woman, both immigrants, and more that they met in grad school and she grew up bourgeois. politician before Biden tapped her as VP — at Obama’s insistence, according to some reports.But she’ll almost certainly struggle with a wider set of voters more interested in their pocket books, the border and public safety than trans rights or slavery reparations.
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