Amanda Marcotte went to both to the JD Vance event in Philadelphia and the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz announcement rally later in the day. The contrast between the GQP grievance-fest and the Democratic celebration of America could not have been more stark.
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From her article in Salon:
One upside to the Vance event: There was no line to use the ladies' room. Sure, there were women in attendance, but the gender ratio felt like the guest list on Joe Rogan's podcast. There was one kind of diversity in this small but weirdly intense crowd. Every type of white man that gets a hasty "swipe left" on his dating profile was in attendance.
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The people who flooded the Temple stadium[at the Harris/Walz event] looked like any cross-section of America on any given night. There was old, young and all in-between. There were tattooed hipsters and soccer moms. There were people of every race, dressed in every which way. It could have been a crowd of people chosen at random from the streets of Philadelphia, or any city in America, really. They were brought together by the chant quickly becoming the Harris campaign slogan: "Not going back."
When Biden beat TFG in 2020, my profoundest feeling was relief. A lot of damage had already been done. My memories of the 2016 campaign were largely of intra-party struggles between Hillary and Bernie supporters, and the endless sniping from media dudebros who’d made a decades-long project of hating everything Hillary Clinton said or did.
Last time I felt actual joy in a political campaign was when Barack Obama showed us the audacity of hope. No wonder the only attack TFG can come up with for Harris is the fact that she laughs. Did anyone ever seem as joyless as the MAGA control freaks?
The America we deserve is not one of surveilling teenage girls’ menstrual cycles, attacking immigrants, and banning books. We deserve an America that works for all of us.
And we’re doing to call, text, volunteer, donate, fight voter suppression, and do whatever else it takes to get us there.
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From Crashing Vor:
LeMoJoust explains why Republican ideology prevents Trump from replacing Vance.
From lineatus:
Cmae referring to JD Vance: Sigh. What a dud he is.
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