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"The North Star and guiding principle of American democracy has always been freedom. It is, therefore, not surprising that Vice President Kamala Harris is centering her presidential campaign on that word and what it would mean for Americans under her administration."
~ Dan Rather
Freedom as in "We won't go back to the America you MAGA folks want, in which freedom is exclusively for straight white men…. So freedom links to refusing to go back.
As Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan note,
"Harris’ vision is encapsulated by two interconnected themes thus far: 'Freedom' and 'We are not going back.'"
Freedom "evokes the fact that Harris is the first Black woman running for president, the first woman Vice-President, and so touches on the expansion of rights, or basic freedoms, for both women and Black Americans."
#KamalaHarris #freedom #women #minorities
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-is-the-vision-of-the-harris
“'Not going back' evokes both a future orientation and a rejection of the selective and rose-tinted nostalgia of Make America Great Again. Populists like to evoke an idealized alternative to the threats of modernity. (The motto of Brexit – Take Back Control – similarly evoked a golden past). Left unsaid is that this idealized past relied upon a social hierarchy, defined by race and gender. This is the past that Harris, and her supporters, are rejecting."
"Former President Donald Trump has a serious problem with white men: They don’t want to vote for him. At least, not the way they did in 2016.
To plug the hole in Trump’s boat, the former president brought in Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, intending to 'leave him in Pennsylvania' and secure blue-collar workers across the Rust Belt—namely, white men."
~ Edith Olmsted
#KamalaHarris #Trump #JDVance #WhiteMen
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https://newrepublic.com/post/184335/trump-picked-jd-vance-fear-support-white-men
Meanwhile, as numerous media reports are indicating today, White Dudes for Harris raised nearly $4 million last night in its zoom gathering that included more than 180,000 participants.
@wdlindsy@toad.socialAnd, though Republicans have done everything possible (with media assistance) to build a lying narrative that Black voters and Black men are moving to Trump, as Adria Walker notes, the success of last week's Win with Black Men virtual rally "runs counter to the narrative shaped by recent election polling indicating that 30% of Black men are planning on voting for Donald Trump."
Has to burn, Donald, doesn't it?
#KamalaHarris #Trump #JDVance #BlackMen
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/black-men-voters-kamala-harris
"I’m not exactly sure what it takes for his followers to wake up and be afraid, but any candidate who declares that if you elect him, you won’t need to vote again is telling you that he intends to become a dictator. He thinks his followers will be okay with that because he’ll be a dictator for Christianity. …
Trump appears to have a raging case of dictator envy."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/trump-promises-no-more-elections
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on telling "his beautiful Christians" that they won't have to vote ever again if they put him back in office:
"The authoritarian, from Mussolini onward, has always presented himself as not just the savior of the nation, but the person who will take care of things and lighten the burden of the people."
"One thing you can generally count on Donald Trump to do is to repeat himself.
So the next time Trump tells his audience there will be no need for them to vote four years from now, our major news organizations should be ready to respond appropriately.
And that appropriate response is a top-of-the-news banner headline announcing that Trump Is threatening to call off the 2028 elections if he wins in 2024."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/next-time-trump-says-there-wont-be
Nick Anderson on Trump telling "his beautiful Christians" that if they elect him, they won't ever have to vote again.
#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/30/2259068/-Cartoon-The-authoritarian
