the implicit (and sometimes explicit) assumption that black voters will simply fall in line behind what white op ed columnists and a few white anonymous party insiders tell them to do is really, really fucking gross, man, and i am seeing it everywhere
Had a guy tell me just like fifteen minutes ago that Harris has no constituency and to the extent she does, all of them would just fall in line behind whomever the convention picked that wasn’t (and shouldn’t be) her.
And women. I hear a few being offered the VP slot almost like they know two guys who never actually ran for a National Office might be the best out there.
Multiple times in the last couple weeks I have been explicitly “informed” (heavy air quotes there) that that is indeed how Black voters behaved in 2008, 2012, 2016 (especially), and 2020: they got their marching orders and diligently obeyed.
Let’s just say that one more than one instance I have been told that Black voters were the impetus behind both Obama’s win and the passing of things like Prop 8 in California.
But have you considered all the white Pod Save bros saying the same exact things as those NYT op ed writers but with a lot more condescending “we’re just concerned about the party!” bullshit??
Our pundit class has never fully recovered from the 2020 South Carolina primary, which showed clearly that it's Black church ladies, not failson columnists and podcasters, who wield the power in the Democratic Party.
i do think the campaign also had misteps ie michigan and clinton adopted a sorta focus grouped public persona but you can just as easily blame it on wikileaks
but as i keep saying a campaigns failure to persuade and peoples failure to be persuaded are separate things
i still remember cnn trying to get a gotcha moment from this old black lady and her just being idc about any of that nonsense when asked about podestas emails
