kamikaze Harris will lose badly because she'll run an "action figure" fanfic campaign. "I prosecuted bad guys!" as per her 2020 campaign material. You can't run such a campaign without showing just as much of the "action figure" that is Trump.
It's shameful for the Democrats how much they've fostered this situation in which Donald Trump, of all people, is absolutely hosing them on class war and "elites" rhetoric.
This is the entropic endpoint of the horse-trading concessional "safe pair of hands" politics we see with (for example) Starmer and Albanese. For the Democrats, a popular platform and leadership that creates its own media energy separate from Trump-phobia is vital.
I saw an interview Bill Maher did with Buttigieg the other day that went viral. I've got no great love for Maher or Buttigieg but it's the only rhetoric I've heard in recent times from a Democrat that seems likely to cut through.
Buttigieg was quizzed about Silicon Valley and Thiel's influence on JD Vance, and just responded something like: "Let's not overcomplicate it, Silicon Valley billionaires may well have their private desires, but they'll support Trump because they're very rich men and the Republican Party is the party whose agenda benefits very rich men."
