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Kamala is fine. There's something wrong with the Democratic party's campaign engine. I think they must just be so out of touch, or maybe controlled by too many special interests... I don't get it. But Biden's campaign was a shit show, and Kamala's team squandered every lead they had; and she didn't make any mistakes the Republicans could effectively use (a-la Hillary's multiple faux pas). These candidates provide leadership and tone, but they have advisors who (I hope) they're listening to. Only, the Democrat advisors seem to be utterly incompetent.
I am curious just how much AIPAC played into this election. Trump was obviously their favorite, but they had Kamala on a short leash, too, and I believe that her best option was to keep that support. But if she hadn't? Would the loss of the pro-Israel lobby, funding, and voting block have been made up for by the Palestinian-sympathetic voters? I still don't think so, but I'm also completely dumbfounded at this outcome.
I'm interested to see what the popular vote gap is this time.
Kamala is absolutely not fine. She ate absolute shit in the 2020 primaries because ahe is the quintessential policy wonk that is completly divorced from working class struggles. Her big sales pitch in 2020 was student debt relief for anyone who ran a business for 6 years in a low income neighborhood. This was the inevitable outcome when Biden chose her as a running mate back in 2020.
As much as the Democrats want to pretend they are pro-wprking people, they aren't. They will continue to eat shit in elections until they start offering actual policies that benefit actual working people, not business owners and the management classes.
When we're talking about whether "Kamala" is fine, I think we need to be specific as to what we're talking about. Like, I think running a non-white woman who occasionally laughs on camera is fine, but running someone who's flip flopped on Medicare for All isn't.