But, Kamala Harris is the innovative Democratic candidate for president.
And, we’ve been told, she is amazing.
When your basic immediately fails in the second inning, you need a middle-innings relief pitcher. She is the Mariano Rivera of politicians. She’s lights-out. She’s personable, exciting, fast on her feet, wonderful. She is, in the words of the legacy media, a traditional candidate– not just because she’s a Black woman, a fact that explains her lightning-fast social ascent but that only Democrats are allowed to mention, and only then in the context of explaining why America requires , a Black female president– but because she is, seemingly, but excellent at this. Evidently, Harris was the prospect America needed all along. All we had to do was remove her eyeglasses, brush her hair, and put her in a better attire, and she would turn into a prom queen, like in a terrible romcom.
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The media’s change in place regarding Harris has been whiplash-inducing. After all, we were told in 2020 that she had run one of the worst campaigns in present political history– mechanical, off-putting, uncomfortable, ignorant and rude. Then, we were informed that she was one of the worst vice presidents in current history: she was absolutely unhappy, had extraordinary staff turnover rates, and had no accomplishments. Yet a decrepit Joe Biden was concerned about whether Harris may compete with Donald Trump.
But now all is forgiven. The value of the passage of time, palm trees, energy school buses, Venn diagrams, and other things are all wonderful TikTok memes. Her strangely incoherent word salads, topped off with a heavy helping of smugness, are now evidence of her rhetorical brilliance. Her wild hand movements, which resemble a drunken tarmac driver trying to usher a jumbo jet toward the gateway, are actually entrancing signs of her enthusiasm. Her positional dishonesty, which includes the fact that she has virtually always shifted, does not suggest that she is lying, but rather that she is intelligent and perceptive.
So, precisely what happened to turn Kamala Harris from a deeply disliked politician ( 35 % approval rating ) into an Obama-esque talent ( 44 % approval rating )?  ,
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Joe Biden dropped out.  ,
That’s it.  ,
That’s the whole thing.
The legacy media could finally overcome the rock-in-the-shoe discomfort of cognitive dissonance that had been afflicting them since Biden’s brain-dead debate with Trump. They had been forced by circumstance into doing something they despise: objective journalism, in which Democrats are treated as normal figures subject to cross-examination. Since Barack Obama’s ascent nearly 20 years ago, the media have avoided just this sort of thing. Biden’s collapse onstage compelled them to do some journalism, just to cover their asses– otherwise, they would have been implicated in his health coverup.
So they did.
But they did n’t like it.
Now, Biden is gone. They can declare victory. And they can go right back to bathing in the warm, urine-filled kiddie pool of Democrat-media coordination they so enjoy. They’ve eaten their vegetables. Now it’s time for dessert: a heavy helping of Kamala cake. And they’re going to enjoy it.
The only thing left to wonder is whether Americans will accept this overt and overbearing habit. So far, some have. However, the friendly media’s ability to remove the varnish has a way to help presidential campaigns. After all, at one point, the legacy media gave Hillary Clinton the same treatment. It did n’t work out well.
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Politicians usually stand or fall on their own merit in the end. Which is terrible news for Kamala Harris, since she has none.
