On today’s edition of The Editors, Rich and Co. discuss Kamala Harris’s DNC address, from all angles.
To Rich, it “felt . . . like they took out a blender and threw in every cliché that every politician has ever uttered in such a speech over the last, I don’t know, 30 years.”
Phil agrees, saying, “It was definitely full of clichés, and some of it felt lifted from the 2008 Obama campaign.”
The Democrats, Ramesh says, “desperately need to turn the page on everything that’s been bad about our politics for the last ten years, at least. And the way [they] do that is essentially by reelecting the Biden administration, but [call] it the Harris administration.”
“I think . . . that there are real challenges here for the party,” Charlie says, “in that even if they manage to get her into the White House, they have built a case for precisely nothing. They’ve built a case for her being president because of ‘joy’ and ‘historic’ and ‘a new way forward’ and nothing else.”
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