This is no honeymoon, the American “left” will never recover from the Harris/Walz combo; every major base of support (demographic/economic) is covered; Black woman with a jovial heartlandish white man standing behind her is the universal password for the legendary “competent American fascism” software update leftists have been prophesying.
They got this shit locked for at least eight years, Walz is suburbanite catnip and Harris has the identity libs eating out her hands, along with big tech, wallstreet, and the zionist lobby who are now methodically eliminating the last holdouts of the post-2016 nascent left movement
There is no credible avenue of leverage here, the libs can effectively respond to any leftist utterance with accusations of racism, misogyny, and purity testing and it will stick. Already we have most liberals being one rhetorical step away from defending Walz unleashing the National Guard on BLM protesters
There is no point in engaging with domestic national politics at this current time, the ball is firmly overseas
The only series of events that can undermine this new DNC paradigm is Israel blowing up the world and the US mobilizing to save it. Not even the collapse of Ukraine can dent it now, since that was “Biden’s project”
Hate to say it, but the DNC won a firm generational victory
It’s still a coin toss between a Trump victory or a Harris victory imo. The most convincing argument I’ve seen for a Trump victory is that the US economy will hit a major recession in 2024-2028 and the national security state would rather have it be under Trump, which will pave the way for Gruesome Newsome in 2028 since voters will blame the poor economy on the GOP. He’s the real competent fascist. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Newsome met with Xi or how, like Harris, he represents the interests of tech giants.
They will not solve the underlying issue of material conditions continuing to crumble
Walz was the least worst option. Take a positive comrade.
Hate to say it, but the DNC won a firm generational victory
I think you’re forgetting the fact that people’s lives will continue to get worse. There’s not going to be any advantage to being an incumbent. No president is going to be able to say that’s peoole are better off now than four years ago and be believed by normal people. Blue and Red MAGA cults will be the only ones saying how good things are when their person is in office.
Blue and Red MAGA cults will be the only ones saying how good things are when their person is in office.
Exactly, that’s all that is required to win, and if normal people try to butt in with reality, General Walz will send in the national guard and smash their skulls
man people are making such a big deal outta the veep, the remarkable thing is the comparison to Vance & the uncharacteristically shrewd calculation the dems made for that comparison. but the veep is not that important and the election hasn’t even happened yet.
Vaunted “Competent Fascism” is going to be hindered if the Dems don’t get a majority in congress beyond the presidency, which is a lot less likely than beating Donnie X Couchfucker. Fascism abroad still requires some level of coordination at home and a republican congress spending all its time trying to impeach Harris for being a woman is not going to be amenable to things getting done
Yeah the most interesting thing about this choice is that it was a strategically sound decision, something I don’t think of the democrats as making often
