The Democratic Party’s next test is protecting Kamala Harris from the vile onslaught coming her way. The MAGA attacks on the US vice president have already become deeply personal.
Donald Trump has openly said that if he wins in November and returns to office, he won’t be a dictator, “except for Day 1”. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank that organised the potentially country-altering Project 2025, has said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Fortunately, Democrats appear to have avoided another intraparty skirmish. Exhausted by weeks of infighting over Biden’s withdrawal, they’ve quickly coalesced around Harris, who has collected enough delegate support to make her their presumptive nominee. Harris will, in this campaign, have to parry not only the sexism that was directed at Hillary Clinton but also the racism that was directed at Barack Obama. As Democratic strategist James Carville said about what Harris will almost certainly continue to face, “Racism is the periodontal disease of America.” He added, “It’s just with us and not going to go away, but it can be overcome.”
For years, they’ve had to watch as prominent black women like Ketanji Brown Jackson and Claudine Gay came under attack in the anti-woke, anti-DEI frenzy that engulfed the country largely as a backlash against the Black Lives Matter movement.
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