USA 2024 presidential election

Obviously being ostensible satire, I'm sure there's a degree of cherry picking going by Stewart but his run-down of the last week or two does kinda hint that the GOP really didn't (yet) how to handle Harris and its media mouthpieces have been flailing around with some frankly outrageous swings.

Does read like they haven't figured out a tactic yet and maybe in the comings weeks they will, undoubtedly. But it does all smell like scrambling in lieu of any concrete point of attack. No more than it was with Biden himself TBH in 2020: GOP had no clear path on policy so leant on the same shít they did with Clinton - innuendo over "criminality" with Hunter Biden, as it was with Hillary & alleged malfeasance.

As far as I can see Harris just doesn't have the same kind of … I dunno how to describe it other than skeleton adjacent history in her cupboard, so what then? If all they can manage is trash-talk about her romantic history via creeps and malcontents like Ben Shapiro? Coming polls are gonna be very interesting to read, unreliable as they might be and if there has been any kind of bounce.

I think had one side not such an egregiously destructive, wannabe dictatorial candidate the conversation might have been more about the lack of left-of-centre representation on either ticket, absolutely; but a right-leaning Californian is practically Trotsky when the other side is openly embracing the lure of authoritarianism & warping America's executive power into something absolute.

Back in 2016 you saw in the Democratic Primary a pretty clear conversation about finally embracing a more openly socialist candidate with the likes of Sanders or Warren talking up more leftie language (obviously compared with Europe you can debate how "socialist" either were). I think when, of all people, Hillary Clinton nosed ahead of Bernie Sanders it really shrank the Left's enthusiasm … even suddenly meaning this outsider Donald Trump appealed with his drain the swamp narrative. Maybe there was some political establishment after all if after all the buzz Clinton got the nod & spoke of "her turn".

Of course we saw how that all went, but it's curious how the last 2 election cycles there's nary a mumble about the Democrats' poverty of left-leaning choices or priorities. Not to any national, mainstream degree. And until MAGA is stamped out or dies with Trump, I kinda get it: America democracy is still in Crisis Mode & radical swings to the left could only further the agenda of the Hard Christian Right trying to upend the country. I don't even know how you unring the bell of this increasingly hostile Christian Right, but going Left mightn't be it.

Mind you, all that said, Harris could canter all the way through November into the White House … but it speaks to that Crisis Mode nobody has yet asked "yeah but Trump, what if you lose?" … cos again, we saw how that went the last time & I see no reason why MAGA is this time gonna say, "yeah we lost, fair enough".