Can any of this last? Has she now peaked? Not if these lunatics can help it.
AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s been nearly three hours. There are thousands of us squished together, toppling over, jostling, hot, uncomfortable, straining under the lights. Everywhere I look, there are people holding tall “Kamala” signs, shouting, screaming, panting, roaring. Music is pounding.
As for the look — well, it’s convention loopy. Everyone around me is wearing Kamala outfits: pearls, skinny jeans and Converse. Even the men. It’s quite strange to talk to a 6-foot retired web designer called Chuck from Minnesota in pearls, or to a see a male delegate from California sporting a straight-up Queen Mother-grade choker and Kamala make-up.
There is a special VIP lounge for 200 TikTokkers — sorry, “creators” — who will tell you they are big into either “Congress” or “public policy.” Why risk hoping 15,000 journalists will parrot your line when you can just fly in an “anti-authoritarian” TikTokker or a tame viral expert “on all things Nancy Pelosi,” as one girl from California describes herself.
Meanwhile, the strange conversations flow. It’s perfectly normal for people to open with, “My cousin is a coach on ‘The Voice Philippines,’ ” or, “Would you like a free Bible?” the moment she gets into the White House, so — in the absence of almost any other hint of a policy — the convention has run with it in the only way American politics knows how: to terrifying extremes.
Everyone is fully pro-abortion and pro-women while, of course, not being able to say what one is. What is a woman?On the first night, there are at least 66 speeches. I know, I know — lawyers gonna lawyer. Most of them follow this format: the speaker will come on, give an incredible foxy smirk at the audience and then say, “Can you feel somethin’ happenin’? Somethin’ stirrin’? It’s the MAGIC OF KAMALA HARRIS.
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