As wildly different as Harris and Trump are, their campaigns seem to share a degree of indifference to the specifics of what their candidates are saying, because both campaigns realize that many of their voters are unconcerned about such details—or, at the very least, are unlikely to be moved by them. What matters to many voters right now is their hatred and fear, however justified, of the opposing candidate, and the fun they have calling the other side weird, dangerous, and deranged.
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Dude Biden went up at the debate and tried to fumble his way through explanations of how his record on working class progress was honestly pretty good
And all everyone wanted to talk about was how he was clearly old as fuck
I think Harris is doing what our brain damaged media landscape requests of her
Better than literally any other president in living memory. Which is to say, still genocidal dogshit. He put sanctions on settlers, pushed for a ceasefire, paused weapons shipments to try to pressure them to stop killing, and then said aw what the hell and gave them $60 billion worth of weapons anyway.
How’s that different from any other presidential race in the last 30 years?
Maybe that’s not the questions we need to ask. Maybe we should be asking ourselves things like why is it that way, why we allow it, what we can realistically do to change it, and most importantly, are we willing to make the sacrifices, and suffer the consequences, without being attached to the outcome, either way or any way, ie, can we accept that the only thing that overcomes defeat is an everything-we’ve-got try?
I’m not sure everyone that is commenting actually read the full article
The article is about Kamala, but also, on a deeper level, it is about the roles and responsibilities of the press. From a liberal slanting (take that as center left) publication un the US this is surprising
The author exposes the kid gloves that the media is treating Kamala Harris with
Great article
Full disclaimer, I usually hate opinion pieces and don’t particularly care for the New Yorker
