“Not once in her recent speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana or Texas did she mention the word ‘inflation’.”
By David Catron
One of the worst political pratfalls by any recent presidential candidate was Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” speech in September of 2016. At the time, most Democrats and their Legacy Media Partners openly agreed with her assessment of Donald Trump and his supporters. When the targets of that snide slander sent her back to Chappaqua, it dawned on some of these geniuses that insulting the customer is a losing strategy.
Most Democrats failed to learn the lesson, however, including the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee for 2024 – Vice President Kamala Harris.
It's with no apparent sense of irony that she and others in the party's leadership have taken to calling her Republican opponents “weird” in the past few weeks.One would think that Harris – whose bizarre "word salads" have made her something of a laughing stock – would avoid the term “weird.” Yet she uses it to describe Republicans at every opportunity.
Predictably, as Dave Rubin documents, this puerile taunt has been parroted by a long list of Democrats and talking heads – and they have by no means restricted their insults to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Democratic operative Max Burns writes in The Hill that Trump’s choice of Vance as his running mate reveals what he imagines is a profound insight about the former president and his supporters:
“It’s reminding millions of voters that the MAGA movement is a clown car packed with off-putting weirdos.”
In 2020, this “clown car” carried 74 million voters – 8 million more than Barack Obama carried in 2012.
This is why New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman describes this schoolyard name-calling as “the dumbest message Democrats could seize on right now.”
These “weirdos” are:
- The working-class voters who have endured the most pain from the economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration.
- They are the people struggling to pay for groceries, gasoline & rent.
- They are the young couples who can’t afford to buy a house because the median price of an existing home is at a record high and mortgage rates have skyrocketed.
This is bad news for Harris and Democrats in general because these working class voters may well decide who wins the upcoming election.As political scientist Ruy Teixeira writes in the Liberal Patriot:
Here is a simple truth: how working-class (noncollege) voters move will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election.
They will be the overwhelming majority of eligible voters (around two-thirds) and, even allowing for turnout patterns, only slightly less dominant among actual voters (around three-fifths).
Moreover, in all six key swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – the working-class share of the electorate, both as eligible voters and as projected 2024 voters, will be higher than the national average.
They will be the overwhelming majority of eligible voters (around two-thirds) and, even allowing for turnout patterns, only slightly less dominant among actual voters (around three-fifths).
Moreover, in all six key swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – the working-class share of the electorate, both as eligible voters and as projected 2024 voters, will be higher than the national average.
This clearly favors the GOP presidential ticket. According to exit polls conducted by Edison Research after the 2020 election, Trump won 67% of the white working class vote and 26% of the non-white working class vote.
Considering that the top issues for these voters are inflation and immigration – on which they tend to trust Republicans more than Democrats – the Trump-Vance ticket is likely to receive an even larger share of the working class vote in 2024.
Consequently, despite the polling bounce Harris has received after Biden was forced out of the race, former Obama strategist David Axelrod (at right,) warned his fellow Democrats against “irrational exuberance” during a CNN interview on Saturday:
Consequently, despite the polling bounce Harris has received after Biden was forced out of the race, former Obama strategist David Axelrod (at right,) warned his fellow Democrats against “irrational exuberance” during a CNN interview on Saturday:
“It’s absolutely Trump’s race to lose right now.”But Harris may not be able to rise above schoolyard taunts.
On inflation, for example, an AP article reported that she has never discussed the topic in the speeches she has made since she was installed at the top of Democratic presidential ticket:
“Not once in speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana, or Texas did she mention the word ‘inflation’.”
It’s probable that she and her campaign staff will insist that she had no control over the policies that caused the problem – but she cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate that ultimately allowed the inflationary $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to reach Biden’s desk for signature.
Indeed, according to the New York Times, she has cast more tie-breaking votes than any other Vice President in history:
Vice President Kamala Harris broke the centuries-old record on Tuesday for the most tiebreaking votes cast by a vice president in the Senate, underscoring Democrats’ tenuous hold on the majority …
The vice president serves as the president of the Senate, giving her the constitutional power to break ties in the 100-member body.
Since 1789, 300 tiebreaking votes have been cast – former Vice President Mike Pence provided 13 tiebreakers while in office, and President Biden cast none while he served eight years as vice president.
The vice president serves as the president of the Senate, giving her the constitutional power to break ties in the 100-member body.
Since 1789, 300 tiebreaking votes have been cast – former Vice President Mike Pence provided 13 tiebreakers while in office, and President Biden cast none while he served eight years as vice president.
Presumably, it would be rude to point out that this dubious milestone renders it blindingly obvious that the fingerprints of our Vice President are all over the Joe Biden’s record of fiscal incontinence.
It will also make it very difficult to claim that she was not an active partner in the other failures that define the regime.This is particularly true where the border crisis is concerned. Not that her friends in the 4th Estate haven’t tried to cover it up – and never mind that they themselves have documented her high profile role in the catastrophe.
As AP reported in March of 2021,
As AP reported in March of 2021,
“President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border.”
It’s abundantly clear that these people truly believe they can convince the voters to ignore the evidence of their eyes by insulting them.
It’s rather like being told by a used car salesman, “You’re a total moron if you don’t buy this sweet ride.”
Sometimes the voters can be fooled by this kind of nonsense, but not by an empty pantsuit like Harris.
She’s too … well … weird.
David Catron is a recovering health care consultant and a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter at @Catronicus.
