If there’s one thing that pretty much everyone agreed on prior to last week, it’s that Kamala Harris has horrible, and I mean truly ghastly, political instincts.
Case in point:
The AP reports (archive link):
All of a sudden it’s Kamala Harris ‘ economy — a major opportunity as well as a possible risk for the likely Democratic presidential nominee.Shortly after President Joe Biden left the race a week ago, Harris began to craft her own narrative around the economy by putting an emphasis on ending child poverty, promoting labor unions, reducing the costs of health and child care and protecting “dignity” in retirement.Not once in speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana or Texas did she mention the word “inflation” — the overwhelming economic challenge that has dogged Biden’s administration and forced him in remarks to consistently acknowledge voters’ pain as they cope with higher grocery, gasoline, housing and auto expenses.Harris is putting a bigger priority on what she says could be ahead.“In our vision of the future, we see a place where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead — a future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every senior can retire with dignity and where every worker has the freedom to join a union,” Harris told the American Federation of Teachers on Thursday.
This is completely tone deaf and absolutely appalling. Americans are very much suffering under record high cost of living. Everything from groceries, to utilities, to rent/mortgages, to homeowner’s insurance, and beyond is so incredibly expensive that many people in America are truly hurting.
To address that with, oh nevermind about such tedious distractions like buying food and having a roof over your head, just imagine my bright Utopian future in which we are singing songs of communal praise from our state-run, state-monitored 15-minute cities/ant houses/panopticon prisons.
Terrible on every single level. It completely misses, even dismisses, the very real pain and suffering that the Biden-Harris economy has caused. It is disdainful of Americans who are struggling, practically telling them that their hunger, their pain is not important at all.
But we are supposed to believe that this same uncaring, unsympathetic, cold shrew has a caring, compassionate plan . . . for some far off future? One that will magically manifest from the ruins of the America Last Biden-Harris economy? Surreal.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
https://twtter.com/RLee19783678/status/1817209353625092445
And let’s not forget this (archive link):
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