while i am at it, i don’t think it is necessarily true that a woman of color is predestined to lose a presidential election, but i think attempting it under these circumstances and in this time frame takes a bar that’s already higher than it has ever been and doubles it
she is an extraordinary leader but this asks her to pull off the greatest feat in the history of american presidential campaigns with basically four months to do it
"Can Kamala do it" is a fine question, but we are also obligated to ask ourselves "can we collectively get our misogynoir under control for the next four months". Individuals have very limited control over national politics, but we could all interrogate our own "a woman but not that one" tendencies.
Given how much of the post-debate hysteria was "how can we replace Biden with literally anyone but the one person constitutionally mandated to replace him, anyone but her, because reasons," I think we have our answer on the misogynoir question.
