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On this last stage of the 2024 presidential election, it feels as if the one factor going nicely for Vice President Kamala Harris is fundraising.
Money is pouring into her coffers on such a scale that some experiences counsel the marketing campaign is reluctant to be seen “bragging” about it.
After all, it proves — simply as Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton did in 2016 — that no amount of cash could make up for a horrible candidate.
And boy is Kamala Harris a horrible candidate.Â
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From the embarrassing, scripted, substance-free teleprompter speeches, to the fear of answering actual questions, to the calamitous responses she provides even to completely predictable questions, it’s straightforward to see why Kamala Harris’ earlier presidential marketing campaign collapsed into mediocrity, failure and finger-pointing after the sugar-high of its launch.
It’s more durable to see why Democrats thought it might be any completely different this time. The one factor that modified since 2020 was Kamala Harris proving to be a flop as vp, too.
However, there does appear to be one group of Individuals who’re nonetheless feeling “the enjoyment.” Sadly for the Harris marketing campaign, it’s not Black males, Hispanic ladies, or another giant block of voters.
As a substitute, it’s a really small group certainly: billionaires. Sure, the identical “billionaire class” that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., rails in opposition to as he waves his arms round conjuring up a socialist utopia, is all in for Kamala, in line with current reporting.
What may clarify this obvious contradiction, the standard celebration of the left attracting the assist of capitalism’s final beneficiaries?
Properly, the reply is true there: the truth that these individuals have been such monetary winners means they’ll afford to take pleasure in personally painless virtue-signaling by backing insurance policies that may trigger actual hardship for the much less lucky.
Who cares if a Kamala Harris administration continues to inflate vitality prices with a renewed bout of ‘local weather’ extremism? The billionaires will barely discover the additional prices for his or her non-public jets. In winter time they gained’t have to decide on between heating their residence(s) and cooking their meals. They’ll more than likely be in St. Bart’s anyway.
These aren’t unhealthy individuals. Residing and dealing in Silicon Valley, I do know a few of them personally — for instance, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, most likely the main billionaire antagonist of Donald Trump, was years in the past the lead investor in my tech startup. He just lately discovered himself in sizzling water over claims that he and different billionaire donors have been making an attempt to purchase outcomes, for instance, extra lax enforcement of antitrust legal guidelines.
However I don’t assume that is about furthering enterprise pursuits. They’ve armies of lobbyists for that.
No, supporting Kamala Harris — or extra exactly, opposing Donald Trump — isn’t primarily a monetary, and even political determination: it’s extra more likely to be cultural and psychological.
In spite of everything, it is onerous to seek out a rational rationalization. In each main class of coverage: financial, home safety, overseas affairs and nationwide safety, Trump’s efficiency in workplace was demonstrably superior to the Biden-Harris years.
However from the second Trump appeared on the political scene in 2015, you can really feel the rich elite recoil. He’s simply to not their style. They assume he’s “vulgar.” How appalling that he likes McDonald’s!
After all, the cultural snobbery must be dressed up in some form of precept, so that they have glommed on to the notion, endlessly repeated, that Trump is a “menace to democracy.” Even because the Democratic Occasion is the one really undermining democracy, for instance by overturning elections right here in California.
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For some, the psychological drive to assist Kamala Harris could be the age-old motivation of alleviating guilt. On this sense, it might be seen as simply one other type of philanthropy. (Besides that philanthropy, usually talking, helps individuals.)
Now to be clear, I don’t have something in opposition to billionaires. I assist the free enterprise system wholeheartedly. My mother and father have been working-class immigrants from Communist Hungary, so I don’t begrudge a wealthy particular person their wealth. In the event that they’ve achieved their monetary success by means of onerous work and expertise, good for them.
However so long as I can keep in mind, my focus in politics has been serving to individuals climb the ladder of alternative. And it grew to become more and more clear to me that the institution coverage consensus of the previous 50 years or so had failed working individuals badly.
That’s why I supported Brexit in 2016, after which Trump. It’s why the theme of my Fox Information present “The Subsequent Revolution,” and the e book I wrote in 2018, was “Constructive Populism.”
I mentioned on the time that the Republican Occasion had the chance to turn into a “multiracial working class coalition.” After practically a decade of Trump main the GOP, that chance has turn into a actuality.
It’s primarily based on financial outcomes. Through the Trump presidency, the earnings of these on the lowest ranges of the earnings scale rose quicker than these on the high, for the primary time in half a century.
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That’s why we’re seeing this extraordinary political transformation in America, with the GOP changing into the employees’ celebration whereas the Democrats turn into the celebration of the billionaires.
And mockingly sufficient, it was a billionaire who did it — Donald Trump, the blue-collar billionaire. His cultural enchantment and coverage success led to a really historic political revolution, Republicans representing the working class of all races and backgrounds, leaving the Democrats and their billionaire backers stranded because the celebration of the wealthy, white and woke.
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