Hubert Humphrey was in serious problems after the 1968 Democratic National Convention was through. The conflict was threatening to undermine his campaign before it even started, and the riots, racial strife, and the Vietnam War had ravaged the convention floor and the Chicago streets.
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Humphrey had begun his battle by “embracing the elections of joy, politics of purpose, politicians of joy”. When school campuses and towns were roiling with furious Americans, the experience was fundamentally disconnected from reality.
In 2024, the cities may not be burning, but colleges are under assault from students who support terrorists, and the belief that crime is inexorable outweighs the decline in violent crime rates.
Like 1968, 2024 sees America greatly divided. However, Kamala Harris and the Democrats believed that America needed to re-establish” the elections of pleasure.”
Thanks to the most incredible advertising conversion of a prospect actually, the sloganeering might had worked for a while. Harris, the bumbling, incomprehensible, cackling affirmative action use, immediately became a great, qualified manager who talked about the “future” and confident people that she could manage it.
However for Harris, when the veil was pulled up and the truth revealed, Kamala Harris had nothing new to offer, the public’s elevation of her to the national Democratic image failed.
When Humphrey realized that the “politics of joy” was n’t working, he switched gears and tore into Richard Nixon. He called him a threat to democracy, legal rights, and the working person.  ,
Sound comfortable?
Humphrey was forced to convert from the” Content Warrior” persona to the attack dog. In Kamala Harris’ last three days of campaigning, she will do that.
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The evil president’s campaign speech tomorrow in Erie will follow on the topic of steady versus chaos that she addressed at the Democratic convention in Chicago in August. ” Really imagine Donald Trump using the immense power of the United States administration without any handrails.” Never to improve your life, not to develop national safety”, she told the protocol crowd,” but to provide the only customer he has ever had — himself”.
Harris’s plan is an amalgam of Joe Biden’s democracy-versus-chaos method to the civilization that sought to put Trump as a threat to American organizations. A member who has already survived numerous attempts at his life may find this approach to be unfavorable. Is this what swing-county citizens want to learn three weeks after Election Day?
Left-wing Democrats are the only candidates who care about “improving your life”, did n’t you know that? Sure, it’s exaggerated political rhetoric but it makes you wonder: just who is inciting violence if the election does n’t go their way?
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Harris has n’t yet provided the electorate with any justifications for supporting her. She’s a encryption. Or, she’s all things to all people, giving remarks that range between haranguing Trump and word dish platitudes, complete with false voices.
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She has n’t yet provided voters with a satisfying understanding of what she is all about or what the purpose of her political career is. She has n’t fleshed out her political intent—what she stands for, what she wo n’t abide, what she means to establish, what she wo n’t let happen.
What is her vital goal? Is it regional “repair”, is it to” regulate” an uncertain state, is it “relaunch”? Is it “more from the bottom for the middle, time”? Is it” America as keeper of democracy in the world”? Is it about focusing—now, first, and until something works —on the high daily cost of living? When things ca n’t be reduced to their essentials it’s because they’re not real, there’s nothing to reduce. She has n’t so far demonstrated any intellectual comprehension.
The only” delight” in this election may happen when it’s over.