Republicans’ Final Argument Is Familiar
Kamala Harris Can’t Be A Strong Leader Because She’s A Woman
That’s where Republicans started with her, and that’s where they appear to be ending.
And you hear this chorus these days over and over.
Almost as many times as you hear Trump saying he’s going to fix everything, instantly, magically.
Curious. Not really any more questioning whether she’s Black. Asserting that she’s going to take your guns away. Charging her with supporting the Green New Deal and Medicare For All and then changing her mind. Hardly a peep of that at all anymore.
Nope.
It’s just: she’s not a leader. Not a “heavyweight.”
Subtext ringing loud and clear: because she’s a woman, so men — especially White men, but they want it to be White women too — won’t take her seriously.
And they’ve gotten it to a saturation point where it’s being raised by mainstream media as maybe it’s a legit issue.
Why, maybe, they think it’ll work: Trump already beat a very strong woman. Hillary Clinton.
One of the first things Trump confidant Steve Bannon said upon getting out of jail this week is he called Harris “shrill”.
Goes so far as Elon Musk’s PAC asserting this week: “America really can’t afford a ‘C-Word’ in the White House”.
Will it work? Who knows? Will there be other suprises? Who knows? But right now seems a little like all they got left.