You truly encapsulated the profound cynicism and gaslighting of the neoliberal elites embodied by the Democratic establishment. Profiting from a memoir about how you lost the election to a billionaire reality TV star conman and fascist sociopath, and gleefully touring the book while said fascist's government is lighting the country —and the entire world— on fire, all while claiming that it's actually so inspiring how women of color now also get the chance to become war criminals. Also, we don't need to abolish or, at the very least, substantially change the systems that brought us here, we just need to get people to trust in them again (?) Absolute insanity, all of it.
The thing is the mentality described here isn't just limited to the "neoloiberal elite" it's pretty much true of like 90 plus percent of politicians down to level of like suburban city council in my experience, which is extensive. If people got involved in electoral politics they would probably be surprised at to what extent the vast majority of elected officials believe in nothing and have total contempt for the electorate. They are virtually all just vapid empty shells, very few having any ideology or even any policy that they really care about. They just go with the flow and say down do the most expedient thing to keep or gain power. Bizarrely some of them do start from a legitimate activist background (a la Krysten Sinema) and delusionally think they're still fulfilling that mission while in office. Long-winded way of saying Kamala's ability to mimic social justice language and say things totally at odds with her record as displayed here isn't just limited to politicians at the VP level
I think you’re right. I does look like the vast majority of politicians don’t stand for anything other than their own power and self-interest, and that the ones at the top just get more visibility. People who actually care about their communities and humanity as a whole tend to become organizers, activists, journalists, etc.
This one's a banger. Feels like those last three paragraphs are speaking for a lot of people. I don't want to be cynical. But the evidence leads where it leads.
I was bitterly disappointed, but not really surprised, when the DNC wouldn't let even one Palestinian speak, especially when they had an Israeli speaker (IIRC). The echos from 1968 Chicago were loud. I think you're so right about the Dems not waking up until all the old consultants are dead, which is a scary thought.
Hello. I've really gotten a lot out of many of your columns. This one is especially dear to me. I am an 80 year old great grandma and my kid, grandkids and great grandkids are people of color. To me, you are navigating graciously the shark-infested waters of communications between white people and people of color. From my point of view, you did so very truthfully and you also kept your eyes on things from very different perspectives--both talking about Kamala Harris' not- to-the-real-point communication style and how a woman of color who has had little good said about her gender or her race might value the national "honor" being bestowed upon one of her number. Thank you for never straying far from our country's responsibility in Gaza. Thank you.
Looking at some of the comments, I'm disappointed by the misogyny of some commenters. After Renee Good was shot by a man calling her a "fucking bitch," an astute protestor made and carried a sign: Being a "fucking bitch" is not a crime. As a woman who's dealt with abuse throughout my life, I see with dismay that this government has a perpetrator in the white house, one in the Department of Defense and at least two in the Supreme Court. I don't want to hear women-bashing from those who claim to be part of a pro-democracy [not pro Democratic Party] movement. Not appropriate.
Is it too much to ask the Democratic Party for a clear, working class agenda (that includes everyone), instead of sound bites hyper-targeted to certain constituencies?
Don't look to the 'party' writ large. It's too abstract and doesn't exist in a meaningful way. Call out SPECIFIC democrats. There are plenty of progressive dems with a clear working class message
As someone who was desperate to prevent Trump 2.0 and donated to and volunteered on Harris's campaign, I say wholeheartedly we are not nearly angry enough at her and every campaign operative, consultant, and pundit who handed the election to Trump on a silver platter.
Excellent! Yes, Kamala is important as a symbol for many Black women (and, since her loss, how far The System will allow them to go). But, for me, she never really connected with people or projected much empathy or understanding of the average voter. She lost me when she answered the question of "What would you do differently from Joe Biden?" by replying "Nothing." Seriously? OMG....
Harris is the main reason Harris isn't going to go far, not race.
It's not racist to refuse to support a genocide enthusiast who literally campaigned with warmongering Republican douchebag Liz Cheney rather than, I dunno, somebody from her own party that isn't a despicable piece of shit who profits from human misery.
Tired of being called a misogynist racist for not supporting the murder of brown women and their children.
Nothing defending her but supposedly it's come out that part of the deal if her taking over for Biden was that she wouldn't distinguish herself from Biden in any way
Maybe it was, but what were they going to do, take the nomination away from her if she went rogue? Nah. She could have changed tack if she wanted, but she didn't want to.
If I ever see that fucking worthless asshole [epithet happily changed upon request!] at a demo supporting ICE protestors—ample opportunity—as opposed to a self-aggrandizing book tour and ‘28 soft launch, while fascism goes batshit, I promise to stop calling her a fucking worthless asshole. (Excellent writing, as per usual, btw.)
"Skank" here is Kamala Harris? Don't think the blatant misogyny is helpful. You can hate her and for good reason, but calling women "skank" for no reason is a pretty abhorrent thing to do
Really? I’ve used it for anyone. We all got one, after all!
Happy to have been corrected. Words don’t mean that much to me—therefore if they really do to someone else (on my side), happy to change ‘em up! I get her point.
Until I read further in the comments under your comment I thought for sure that the word changed was going to be my favorite and popular British derogatory and non-gendered(at least by the Brits) C word. I won't write it here since so many Americans get all butt-hurt by it.
To be honest, I can't think of a word that does the job that seems (to me) to be gender neutral, so I don't have any advice for what you should change it to.
1. Journalists may be miserable but they are not unpopular! If I ever have a party, you will be first on my guest list. 2. Don't go full cynical - many people are listening closely. 3. Excellent summation of Kamala's flaws. When she didn't have the courage to separate herself from Biden, we saw that Kamala had a story, not a stand.
"If a very few things had gone differently in the chaotic second half of 2024, we would not be talking about ICE abductions and National Guard deployments and the malevolent dismantling of government services"
A dispatch from the Berenstain universe where Kamala Harris won, re ICE:
"we’re talking about people who have committed serious and violent crimes—you know, I mean, Chris, you know my background. I’m a prosecutor. I believe that there needs to be serious, severe and swift consequence when people commit serious and violent crimes…and certainly if they are undocumented they should be deported if they commit those serious and violent offenses. So yes, ICE has a purpose, ICE has a role, ICE should exist. "
We wouldn't be talking about it, agreed, but only because they would be kidnapping, torturing and murdering the 'right' people.
Slight tangent but I seriously thought I was going crazy about Renee Good until a recent crop of articles was like "Yea, shes like the 17th murder they've committed on camera but the first White Woman so it finally matters nationally."
Thanks for always keeping Palestine in your thoughts Hamilton. Keep up the good work - I don’t know if I could have sat through that, so thanks for doing it for us.
The road to fascism, it seems is, destined to be littered with the people who can talk pretty (for a certain value of pretty) and do nothing else. In fact it seems that's their prime qualification to even approach the levers of power in this country.
Begrudgingly I must accept the validity of some of the conservative critique of DEI. No that any of it is in good faith or even coherent. But it does seem that under the guise of Diversity, corporate robots were smuggled in who look the part of champions of pluralism while existing only to advance the goals of our white supremacy addled corporate donor class.
As with most things in this wretched consumerist society, every good instinct or desire to do the right thing must be perverted to sell us something antithetical to our hopes, at cross purposes to our best interests and bad for our waste lines.
Then you're not mad about DEI. You're mad about the soulless, evil people who used the momentum of DEI for cynical enrichment. That's not what the conservative critique of DEI is -- the conservative critique of DEI is that Black people should be enslaved again. Your framing helps the fascists.
I agree, I am not mad about the instinct to remedy societal failings by centering diversity, ethics and inclusion. DEI, however, as a corporate and political subterfuge to pantomime progress I've got a big problem with.
As a brown person I get no frisson of accomplishment or warm glow of progress when I see other brown people functioning as puppets of the worst people on the planet, providing cover for the economic looting of the country or manufacturing consent for blowing up other black, brown, indigenous people across the globe and stealing their resources.
So let me sum it up this way. A society controlled by soulless, evil people will only every allow fellow travelers into their ranks. What we want to believe is progress will only ever be a cynical manipulation of that desire.
So my agreement with the conservative critique is purely superficial. In the same way that my agreement with conservative critique that liberals (as represented by the majority of the Democratic party) are full of shit, is agreement but for completely different reasons.
I hear what you're saying, but no normies to whom you say "I agree with conservatives on DEI" are going to take it that way. Nazis will use it as ammunition and liberals will use it as an excuse to keep being racist coward dipshits. Best to avoid any agreements with or humanizing of conservatives. They are evil and everything they have built must be destroyed. Those are the only things that ever need to be said about them.
I think you are too kind to an amoral sociopath with obvious contempt and loathing for the people she expected to vote for her after campaigning with Liz Fucking Cheney and crowing about developing the "most lethal military in the world" as America is sponsoring the murder of people of color across the globe in the pursuit of natural resources at a discount.
Biden should have stepped down and a primary should have happened.
Yet they just put Harris on the ticket. Last second desperation due to Biden and others not preparing a successor or a group of them.
Harris was not popular then or now. She did not help herself by not taking advantage of her position. She could have taken the lead on the immigration issue and failed to do so. The Republicans took advantage of this. She should quietly disappear. As should Hillary. They need new leaders and leaders without the baggage of the past.
She did kick Trump's arse in the debate. Which his advisors of course made sure he did not make that mistake twice.
The war in Gaza was and is a terrible situation. Biden let decades of favoring Israel to cloud his judgement. Harris could have spoken up but has a vice president gone against a president that chose them? There is a unified front they try to project.
Muslims of course helped elect Trump who does not care about them and is friendly towards Netanyahu. They seemed to have missed the meetings at Mara Lago held while Trump was not president.
The Republicans have a strategy that works. They own the rural vote. They control the media that the rural voters hear. They control the AM airwaves. Fox and others push propaganda 24/7. They get equal time on the so called liberal networks that allow them to push their lies and propaganda which gives them the advantage. It is impossible to win election while always on the defense instead of taking the offense.
Even this book of I could or should blather.
People voted for Trump. It is not Biden's fault. Harris's fault. Not the Dems fault. It is the fault of the voters. Americans are stupid. Not all but most.
To win elections Democrats have to appeal to the demographic that votes. These voters can't understand complicated solutions or long term plans. They don't understand simple economics. They don't understand correlation and causation.
They voted for a corrupt imbecile who is also a gifted savant at lying and manipulating others.
Simple slogans. I am going to make things better. Scapegoat others. Lie a lot and project his own issues onto the opposition.
What do the Dems do? They shut down the government to help his supporters get healthcare. They won't vote for the Dems because they are not smart enough to understand what the Dems are trying to do for them.
The Dems needed to let the subsidies disappear and blame Trump and the Republicans. They need to be on the record voting for the healthcare and then take the offensive.
They have to stop favoring immigrants and illegal immigrants. That is not a winning strategy. The last election proved that. They are losing the propaganda war as they are falling for his tactics. He needs the ignorant to believe him. He doesn't need the smart people that know he is
corrupt. Again the Dems will win the smart vote and lose the election.
Now if the economy tanks and people are hurting. That is on Trump. He is trying to blame the Dems. Now the dumb only look at the most recent paycheck before they vote to determine if they are happy or not. He did not bring coal back. It did not get better but it could not get worse so it is still the Dems fault. If oil prices are low he will see inflation decrease. If oil prices increase he will struggle. I don't see the Saudis, Qatar or other authoritarian states lowering oil output. They are under his control.
He can cut his tariffs right before the election and prices will drop and his supporters won't comprehend that he will raise them after the election. They don't understand how they are paying more now because of their cult leader.
I don't care what Harris has to say.
Where is some new leader going to step up? Be on TV daily? This new leader needs to take the spotlight away from the dictator and project a strong image and a patriotic image. 24 /7 for the next few years and others need to support them 100%. No attacking your own.
"She could have taken the lead on the immigration issue and failed to do so."
In her defense, republicans would have claimed she was weak on immigration no matter WHAT she did. She could have FIXED it and they would still cry that it was still broken. They were never going to give credit in good faith
Republicans of course would lie. The failed to pass immigration legislation because their cult leader told them not to sign on with the Dems plan. So he then could use that to win the election. What Dems do wrong is they do not blame the Republicans for stuff like this and then take all them blame with the Republicans lie.
So they need to be on TV 24/7 saying that they will solve it and the Republicans don't want to. Instead they lost the rhetoric game.
They may have thought that Roe would mean many women would support the Dems. That didn't happen. They figured most people would not support a corrupt traitor but they did and still do. They figured wrong twice that Americans would vote for a woman. They made it worse by nominating a Black woman for president.
Next they will nominate a LGBTQ Black Atheist and wonder why they lost. I don't have a problem with that but most voters in the US do.
The Republicans leaders are not religious, don't care about abortion, and like illegal workers because they are cheap labor. They do like money and are greedy. They want to win elections. So they do what they have to. It's politics.
You truly encapsulated the profound cynicism and gaslighting of the neoliberal elites embodied by the Democratic establishment. Profiting from a memoir about how you lost the election to a billionaire reality TV star conman and fascist sociopath, and gleefully touring the book while said fascist's government is lighting the country —and the entire world— on fire, all while claiming that it's actually so inspiring how women of color now also get the chance to become war criminals. Also, we don't need to abolish or, at the very least, substantially change the systems that brought us here, we just need to get people to trust in them again (?) Absolute insanity, all of it.
The thing is the mentality described here isn't just limited to the "neoloiberal elite" it's pretty much true of like 90 plus percent of politicians down to level of like suburban city council in my experience, which is extensive. If people got involved in electoral politics they would probably be surprised at to what extent the vast majority of elected officials believe in nothing and have total contempt for the electorate. They are virtually all just vapid empty shells, very few having any ideology or even any policy that they really care about. They just go with the flow and say down do the most expedient thing to keep or gain power. Bizarrely some of them do start from a legitimate activist background (a la Krysten Sinema) and delusionally think they're still fulfilling that mission while in office. Long-winded way of saying Kamala's ability to mimic social justice language and say things totally at odds with her record as displayed here isn't just limited to politicians at the VP level
I think you’re right. I does look like the vast majority of politicians don’t stand for anything other than their own power and self-interest, and that the ones at the top just get more visibility. People who actually care about their communities and humanity as a whole tend to become organizers, activists, journalists, etc.
This one's a banger. Feels like those last three paragraphs are speaking for a lot of people. I don't want to be cynical. But the evidence leads where it leads.
Agree!
"In the midst of everything, a book tour" is such an understated yet brutal burn. Well played sir.
I was bitterly disappointed, but not really surprised, when the DNC wouldn't let even one Palestinian speak, especially when they had an Israeli speaker (IIRC). The echos from 1968 Chicago were loud. I think you're so right about the Dems not waking up until all the old consultants are dead, which is a scary thought.
Hello. I've really gotten a lot out of many of your columns. This one is especially dear to me. I am an 80 year old great grandma and my kid, grandkids and great grandkids are people of color. To me, you are navigating graciously the shark-infested waters of communications between white people and people of color. From my point of view, you did so very truthfully and you also kept your eyes on things from very different perspectives--both talking about Kamala Harris' not- to-the-real-point communication style and how a woman of color who has had little good said about her gender or her race might value the national "honor" being bestowed upon one of her number. Thank you for never straying far from our country's responsibility in Gaza. Thank you.
Looking at some of the comments, I'm disappointed by the misogyny of some commenters. After Renee Good was shot by a man calling her a "fucking bitch," an astute protestor made and carried a sign: Being a "fucking bitch" is not a crime. As a woman who's dealt with abuse throughout my life, I see with dismay that this government has a perpetrator in the white house, one in the Department of Defense and at least two in the Supreme Court. I don't want to hear women-bashing from those who claim to be part of a pro-democracy [not pro Democratic Party] movement. Not appropriate.
Thank you Jeanne, you make a good point.
Is it too much to ask the Democratic Party for a clear, working class agenda (that includes everyone), instead of sound bites hyper-targeted to certain constituencies?
Yes.
Not when Hakeem endorses Dan Goldman rather than Brad Lander.
Of course AIPAC Shakur is in it with Daniel Sachs Goldman.
Don't look to the 'party' writ large. It's too abstract and doesn't exist in a meaningful way. Call out SPECIFIC democrats. There are plenty of progressive dems with a clear working class message
As someone who was desperate to prevent Trump 2.0 and donated to and volunteered on Harris's campaign, I say wholeheartedly we are not nearly angry enough at her and every campaign operative, consultant, and pundit who handed the election to Trump on a silver platter.
Excellent! Yes, Kamala is important as a symbol for many Black women (and, since her loss, how far The System will allow them to go). But, for me, she never really connected with people or projected much empathy or understanding of the average voter. She lost me when she answered the question of "What would you do differently from Joe Biden?" by replying "Nothing." Seriously? OMG....
Harris is the main reason Harris isn't going to go far, not race.
It's not racist to refuse to support a genocide enthusiast who literally campaigned with warmongering Republican douchebag Liz Cheney rather than, I dunno, somebody from her own party that isn't a despicable piece of shit who profits from human misery.
Tired of being called a misogynist racist for not supporting the murder of brown women and their children.
"Nothing" is the answer you deliver when your campaign is taking advice from Clinton-era political consultants.
Nothing defending her but supposedly it's come out that part of the deal if her taking over for Biden was that she wouldn't distinguish herself from Biden in any way
Maybe it was, but what were they going to do, take the nomination away from her if she went rogue? Nah. She could have changed tack if she wanted, but she didn't want to.
Right. Ultimately they had no leverage over her so the fact that she accepted the terms of this "deal" shows her true character anyway
If I ever see that fucking worthless asshole [epithet happily changed upon request!] at a demo supporting ICE protestors—ample opportunity—as opposed to a self-aggrandizing book tour and ‘28 soft launch, while fascism goes batshit, I promise to stop calling her a fucking worthless asshole. (Excellent writing, as per usual, btw.)
"Skank" here is Kamala Harris? Don't think the blatant misogyny is helpful. You can hate her and for good reason, but calling women "skank" for no reason is a pretty abhorrent thing to do
How about, “fucking worthless asshole on a book tour while fascism goes batshit?” That’d be my first “no-reason.” Of many. Gender-neutral for ya.
That’s actually a lot better. Thanks.
OK, will change.
I've always thought "asshole" is gendered male, but that's just me.
Really? I’ve used it for anyone. We all got one, after all!
Happy to have been corrected. Words don’t mean that much to me—therefore if they really do to someone else (on my side), happy to change ‘em up! I get her point.
Until I read further in the comments under your comment I thought for sure that the word changed was going to be my favorite and popular British derogatory and non-gendered(at least by the Brits) C word. I won't write it here since so many Americans get all butt-hurt by it.
It’s my go-to, but not what I used.
Look, the terms if abuse don’t bug me but they bugged someone else on my side, so, no worries. I used sumthin’ else! 😊
To be honest, I can't think of a word that does the job that seems (to me) to be gender neutral, so I don't have any advice for what you should change it to.
Right on Doug - there is way too much ugly name calling to go around (starting with POTUS).
1. Journalists may be miserable but they are not unpopular! If I ever have a party, you will be first on my guest list. 2. Don't go full cynical - many people are listening closely. 3. Excellent summation of Kamala's flaws. When she didn't have the courage to separate herself from Biden, we saw that Kamala had a story, not a stand.
For one thing, journalists are champion drinkers, and we all know that booze lowers inhibitions and makes people more fun.
"If a very few things had gone differently in the chaotic second half of 2024, we would not be talking about ICE abductions and National Guard deployments and the malevolent dismantling of government services"
A dispatch from the Berenstain universe where Kamala Harris won, re ICE:
"we’re talking about people who have committed serious and violent crimes—you know, I mean, Chris, you know my background. I’m a prosecutor. I believe that there needs to be serious, severe and swift consequence when people commit serious and violent crimes…and certainly if they are undocumented they should be deported if they commit those serious and violent offenses. So yes, ICE has a purpose, ICE has a role, ICE should exist. "
https://www.jezebel.com/not-good-enough-kamala-harris-1823645362
We wouldn't be talking about it, agreed, but only because they would be kidnapping, torturing and murdering the 'right' people.
Slight tangent but I seriously thought I was going crazy about Renee Good until a recent crop of articles was like "Yea, shes like the 17th murder they've committed on camera but the first White Woman so it finally matters nationally."
I always enjoy Hamilton’s essays, but this one is outstanding- a gem.
The clarity of his thoughts help disperse the cloudiness of mine.
Well-said, Linda.
Thanks for always keeping Palestine in your thoughts Hamilton. Keep up the good work - I don’t know if I could have sat through that, so thanks for doing it for us.
The road to fascism, it seems is, destined to be littered with the people who can talk pretty (for a certain value of pretty) and do nothing else. In fact it seems that's their prime qualification to even approach the levers of power in this country.
Begrudgingly I must accept the validity of some of the conservative critique of DEI. No that any of it is in good faith or even coherent. But it does seem that under the guise of Diversity, corporate robots were smuggled in who look the part of champions of pluralism while existing only to advance the goals of our white supremacy addled corporate donor class.
As with most things in this wretched consumerist society, every good instinct or desire to do the right thing must be perverted to sell us something antithetical to our hopes, at cross purposes to our best interests and bad for our waste lines.
Then you're not mad about DEI. You're mad about the soulless, evil people who used the momentum of DEI for cynical enrichment. That's not what the conservative critique of DEI is -- the conservative critique of DEI is that Black people should be enslaved again. Your framing helps the fascists.
I agree, I am not mad about the instinct to remedy societal failings by centering diversity, ethics and inclusion. DEI, however, as a corporate and political subterfuge to pantomime progress I've got a big problem with.
As a brown person I get no frisson of accomplishment or warm glow of progress when I see other brown people functioning as puppets of the worst people on the planet, providing cover for the economic looting of the country or manufacturing consent for blowing up other black, brown, indigenous people across the globe and stealing their resources.
So let me sum it up this way. A society controlled by soulless, evil people will only every allow fellow travelers into their ranks. What we want to believe is progress will only ever be a cynical manipulation of that desire.
So my agreement with the conservative critique is purely superficial. In the same way that my agreement with conservative critique that liberals (as represented by the majority of the Democratic party) are full of shit, is agreement but for completely different reasons.
I hear what you're saying, but no normies to whom you say "I agree with conservatives on DEI" are going to take it that way. Nazis will use it as ammunition and liberals will use it as an excuse to keep being racist coward dipshits. Best to avoid any agreements with or humanizing of conservatives. They are evil and everything they have built must be destroyed. Those are the only things that ever need to be said about them.
I think you are too kind to an amoral sociopath with obvious contempt and loathing for the people she expected to vote for her after campaigning with Liz Fucking Cheney and crowing about developing the "most lethal military in the world" as America is sponsoring the murder of people of color across the globe in the pursuit of natural resources at a discount.
Biden should have stepped down and a primary should have happened.
Yet they just put Harris on the ticket. Last second desperation due to Biden and others not preparing a successor or a group of them.
Harris was not popular then or now. She did not help herself by not taking advantage of her position. She could have taken the lead on the immigration issue and failed to do so. The Republicans took advantage of this. She should quietly disappear. As should Hillary. They need new leaders and leaders without the baggage of the past.
She did kick Trump's arse in the debate. Which his advisors of course made sure he did not make that mistake twice.
The war in Gaza was and is a terrible situation. Biden let decades of favoring Israel to cloud his judgement. Harris could have spoken up but has a vice president gone against a president that chose them? There is a unified front they try to project.
Muslims of course helped elect Trump who does not care about them and is friendly towards Netanyahu. They seemed to have missed the meetings at Mara Lago held while Trump was not president.
The Republicans have a strategy that works. They own the rural vote. They control the media that the rural voters hear. They control the AM airwaves. Fox and others push propaganda 24/7. They get equal time on the so called liberal networks that allow them to push their lies and propaganda which gives them the advantage. It is impossible to win election while always on the defense instead of taking the offense.
Even this book of I could or should blather.
People voted for Trump. It is not Biden's fault. Harris's fault. Not the Dems fault. It is the fault of the voters. Americans are stupid. Not all but most.
To win elections Democrats have to appeal to the demographic that votes. These voters can't understand complicated solutions or long term plans. They don't understand simple economics. They don't understand correlation and causation.
They voted for a corrupt imbecile who is also a gifted savant at lying and manipulating others.
Simple slogans. I am going to make things better. Scapegoat others. Lie a lot and project his own issues onto the opposition.
What do the Dems do? They shut down the government to help his supporters get healthcare. They won't vote for the Dems because they are not smart enough to understand what the Dems are trying to do for them.
The Dems needed to let the subsidies disappear and blame Trump and the Republicans. They need to be on the record voting for the healthcare and then take the offensive.
They have to stop favoring immigrants and illegal immigrants. That is not a winning strategy. The last election proved that. They are losing the propaganda war as they are falling for his tactics. He needs the ignorant to believe him. He doesn't need the smart people that know he is
corrupt. Again the Dems will win the smart vote and lose the election.
Now if the economy tanks and people are hurting. That is on Trump. He is trying to blame the Dems. Now the dumb only look at the most recent paycheck before they vote to determine if they are happy or not. He did not bring coal back. It did not get better but it could not get worse so it is still the Dems fault. If oil prices are low he will see inflation decrease. If oil prices increase he will struggle. I don't see the Saudis, Qatar or other authoritarian states lowering oil output. They are under his control.
He can cut his tariffs right before the election and prices will drop and his supporters won't comprehend that he will raise them after the election. They don't understand how they are paying more now because of their cult leader.
I don't care what Harris has to say.
Where is some new leader going to step up? Be on TV daily? This new leader needs to take the spotlight away from the dictator and project a strong image and a patriotic image. 24 /7 for the next few years and others need to support them 100%. No attacking your own.
"She could have taken the lead on the immigration issue and failed to do so."
In her defense, republicans would have claimed she was weak on immigration no matter WHAT she did. She could have FIXED it and they would still cry that it was still broken. They were never going to give credit in good faith
Republicans of course would lie. The failed to pass immigration legislation because their cult leader told them not to sign on with the Dems plan. So he then could use that to win the election. What Dems do wrong is they do not blame the Republicans for stuff like this and then take all them blame with the Republicans lie.
So they need to be on TV 24/7 saying that they will solve it and the Republicans don't want to. Instead they lost the rhetoric game.
They may have thought that Roe would mean many women would support the Dems. That didn't happen. They figured most people would not support a corrupt traitor but they did and still do. They figured wrong twice that Americans would vote for a woman. They made it worse by nominating a Black woman for president.
Next they will nominate a LGBTQ Black Atheist and wonder why they lost. I don't have a problem with that but most voters in the US do.
The Republicans leaders are not religious, don't care about abortion, and like illegal workers because they are cheap labor. They do like money and are greedy. They want to win elections. So they do what they have to. It's politics.
exactly. if republicans solved it, They would have killed the golden goose. The ONE issue they can get their idiot base het up and to the polls over
Same as some Reps were upset with SCOTUS for overturning ROE. They wanted that to be an issue forever.
The dog never expects to actually catch the car