The Vice-President has answered few direct questions since becoming the presumptive nominee. This is probably good for her campaign, but not for voters.

As wildly different as Harris and Trump are, their campaigns seem to share a degree of indifference to the specifics of what their candidates are saying, because both campaigns realize that many of their voters are unconcerned about such details—or, at the very least, are unlikely to be moved by them. What matters to many voters right now is their hatred and fear, however justified, of the opposing candidate, and the fun they have calling the other side weird, dangerous, and deranged.

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  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    222·
    3 months ago

    Dude Biden went up at the debate and tried to fumble his way through explanations of how his record on working class progress was honestly pretty good

    And all everyone wanted to talk about was how he was clearly old as fuck

    I think Harris is doing what our brain damaged media landscape requests of her

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        73·
        3 months ago

        Better than literally any other president in living memory. Which is to say, still genocidal dogshit. He put sanctions on settlers, pushed for a ceasefire, paused weapons shipments to try to pressure them to stop killing, and then said aw what the hell and gave them $60 billion worth of weapons anyway.

  • AfricanExpansionist
    105·
    3 months ago

    How’s that different from any other presidential race in the last 30 years?

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      11·
      3 months ago

      Maybe that’s not the questions we need to ask. Maybe we should be asking ourselves things like why is it that way, why we allow it, what we can realistically do to change it, and most importantly, are we willing to make the sacrifices, and suffer the consequences, without being attached to the outcome, either way or any way, ie, can we accept that the only thing that overcomes defeat is an everything-we’ve-got try?

      • AfricanExpansionist
        24·
        3 months ago

        I don’t really understand your response. Of course I know why it’s that way. The only way I can see to change it is widespread refusal to vote

  • ynazuma@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 months ago

    I’m not sure everyone that is commenting actually read the full article

    The article is about Kamala, but also, on a deeper level, it is about the roles and responsibilities of the press. From a liberal slanting (take that as center left) publication un the US this is surprising

    The author exposes the kid gloves that the media is treating Kamala Harris with

    Great article

    Full disclaimer, I usually hate opinion pieces and don’t particularly care for the New Yorker