Just ten days ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was plucked from the basement of the Naval Observatory, made up, and debuted as the new, worn-out Democratic candidate. The corporate media, which had banded together to remove the old man from the running, are now banding together to support the new, “cool” “candidate.” In lockstep with TV hosts and pundits, the media has launched a campaign to brand the other candidates as “weird.”
It was a bold tactic by a party that featured hair-sniffing, clothes-stealing, naked transsexuals on the South Lawn and SoulCycle in West Hollywood, and Internet activists loved it.But peer beneath the surface of that girlboss energy and you’ll find a general election campaign the likes of which we’ve never seen in the last 50 years.
Democrats seem to be conflating the energy of voters with the energy of Zoom activists, and that energy is real, but it’s not the energy of regular people.
Some are superficial, like launching a get-out-the-vote campaign on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” while other signs are more serious, like hosting a series of online rallies split by race, gender and sexual orientation. And then there’s Joe Biden’s plan, which Harris quickly endorsed, to dismantle and remake government institutions that sometimes resist the Democratic Party’s every whim. From the glitter to the cogs, the summary of the first week and a half of the campaign is a vision of a radical, norm-shattering, institution-busting agenda.
And this was in July.
This is not a normal presidential campaign. It’s the kind of thing Democrats (and Republicans, conversely) do during their primaries, which typically wrap up in the early spring these days. Harris didn’t get that opportunity because there was no primary at all, she didn’t have the chance to mobilize her activists and send a message to all her friends to vote for the newcomer. So now, with less than 100 days until the general election, she’s doing something totally weird.
“We have to keep this energy going,” former Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, told The New York Times. “We started it, and we have to keep it going. It’s going to be a challenge for everybody.”
But is this the energy Democrats really need right now? In 2020, which was all about defeating President Donald Trump, party leaders desperately tried to thwart this kind of extreme politicking, pressuring other candidates to step aside to pave the way for Biden, then desperately (and successfully) pitching him as a healing moderate.
Have the party’s heavyweights, in their excitement over canceling Biden’s reelection, forgotten what they had to do to win the last election? With nearly the entire elite opposed to Trump, rampant censorship of the press, unmonitored absentee voting, COVID-assisted election administration, and a host of other ploys, they won in 2020 as comforting moderates. They would be wise to stick with that strategy.
Instead, they seem to confuse the energy of voters with the energy of Zoom activists. And that energy is real: the calls for “white men” and “white women” have raised millions of dollars for campaigns. But it’s not the energy of regular people. Running further and further left to get some internet applause is the political equivalent of putting a bit of fentanyl in a cocktail to get high.
“White men who support HarrisBut for Zoom calls, you’ll have to log off and head to Pennsylvania, Arizona or Georgia.
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In other news
Virginia Attorney General launches investigation into Democratic Party donation fraud
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares Announced On Monday, his office announced it was investigating highly suspicious donations made through ActBlue following a report exposing a years-long scheme to launder donations.
ActBlue, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, is the centerpiece of a massive Democratic and liberal fundraising machine. It stores and organizes donor information, and allows people who give to one ActBlue cause or politician to donate to other ActBlue causes or politicians with a single click. The question is, how many people are giving thousands of dollars more than they actually give?
In March 2023, investigative journalist James O’Keefe reported that Maryland residents were unaware of how much money ActBlue had raised in their names. One Biden donor and ActBlue user was shocked to learn that 1,000 donations had been made in her name totaling $18,850.
A subsequent investigation in North Carolina found other Democrats who were similarly surprised to hear that thousands of contributions had been made in their names, with tens of thousands of dollars in contributions.
Miyares’s announcement that he would investigate the fraud allegations in Virginia came after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk pointed to allegations that the same thing was happening in the Old Dominion state.
James O’Keefe Protest against ActBlue over fraud allegations
Real Clear Politics: People who donate large sums to the Democratic Party don’t know that their names are being used in donations.
Carolina Journal:Investigation suggests ActBlue may have “laundered” illegal political contributions
Fox News 2023: Rubio calls for investigation into ActBlue after reports of ‘fraudulent’ fundraising practices targeting seniors
Fire up: Compact: Will Kamala become Hillary 2.0?
Trump’s 2016 election message changed the game: it was the first time a serious presidential candidate had pushed an anti-globalist trade message since Ross Perot, and the first time a free-trade skeptic had been in the White House for much longer. The Biden administration has largely continued those policies. But some major donors in both parties want to go back to the days before “America First” economics. Matt Stoller reports.
Last week, a little-noticed fight erupted within the Democratic Party that could upend the 2024 election. On CNN, billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said he supports Kamala Harris but would like to see the party make a major policy shift if she becomes president, such as abandoning central elements of Biden’s platform on trade and corporate power. If Harris doesn’t forcefully resist such pressure, she may attract huge business backing and media support, but she could lose key battlegrounds and become Hillary Clinton 2.0. ……As one senior labor leader told me, Harris’ response will determine whether she leads a broad coalition for economic reform or whether Hillary gets re-elected. …
