Kamala is fine. Thereβs something wrong with the Democratic partyβs campaign engine. I think they must just be so out of touch, or maybe controlled by too many special interestsβ¦ I donβt get it. But Bidenβs campaign was a shit show, and Kamalaβs team squandered every lead they had; and she didnβt make any mistakes the Republicans could effectively use (a-la Hillaryβs multiple faux pas). These candidates provide leadership and tone, but they have advisors who (I hope) theyβre listening to. Only, the Democrat advisors seem to be utterly incompetent.
I am curious just how much AIPAC played into this election. Trump was obviously their favorite, but they had Kamala on a short leash, too, and I believe that her best option was to keep that support. But if she hadnβt? Would the loss of the pro-Israel lobby, funding, and voting block have been made up for by the Palestinian-sympathetic voters? I still donβt think so, but Iβm also completely dumbfounded at this outcome.
Iβm interested to see what the popular vote gap is this time.
Kamala is absolutely not fine. She ate absolute shit in the 2020 primaries because ahe is the quintessential policy wonk that is completly divorced from working class struggles. Her big sales pitch in 2020 was student debt relief for anyone who ran a business for 6 years in a low income neighborhood. This was the inevitable outcome when Biden chose her as a running mate back in 2020.
As much as the Democrats want to pretend they are pro-wprking people, they arenβt. They will continue to eat shit in elections until they start offering actual policies that benefit actual working people, not business owners and the management classes.
When weβre talking about whether βKamalaβ is fine, I think we need to be specific as to what weβre talking about. Like, I think running a non-white woman who occasionally laughs on camera is fine, but running someone whoβs flip flopped on Medicare for All isnβt.