What a weird week. Just eight(!) days ago, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee, his party and the campaign were dead in the water, and its voters were begging for a miracle. Today, 99 days out from the election, the Kamala Harris campaign is pulling in donations hand over fist, polls have shifted to […]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been the foremost practitioner of the “call them weird” campaign strategy, but Harris has deployed it as well. It resonates with normal people, who just want to live their lives and keep the government out of their underwear and have Thanksgiving dinner without their weird uncle starting some weird fight about some weird Fox News talking head who is still obsessed about finishing fifth in a college swim meet many years ago.
I’ve been contrasting the qons with what I call “normal Americans” for a very long time. I’m so glad to see that Dems are making a combined effort to make this contrast in very stark terms.
What’s funny is the earlier edition of these freaks had people like Paul Ryan - who had a life-long obsession with ending things like Social Security and Medicare - and they are now considered not freakish enough for the newest donnie-humping batch. I mean, wanting to end these benefits for others is already wayyyy into creepy weirdo territory. But even that’s not enough now - they have to get even weirder and tell you how to live every single aspect of your life.
Nailed it
I’ve been contrasting the qons with what I call “normal Americans” for a very long time. I’m so glad to see that Dems are making a combined effort to make this contrast in very stark terms.
What’s funny is the earlier edition of these freaks had people like Paul Ryan - who had a life-long obsession with ending things like Social Security and Medicare - and they are now considered not freakish enough for the newest donnie-humping batch. I mean, wanting to end these benefits for others is already wayyyy into creepy weirdo territory. But even that’s not enough now - they have to get even weirder and tell you how to live every single aspect of your life.