Is there anything about Kamala Harris and her presidential campaign that is… you know… genuine?
OK, we already know the answer to that; there is very little about Harris that is genuine other than her word salads and her grating laugh; her running mate Tim Walz is no better. And while campaign events are frequently, as Ed Sullivan would have put it, a “really big show,” with opening acts and so on, it sure seems like Kamala Harris can’t fill up a broom closet, much less a major venue, without some kind of draw – because the people sure don’t seem to be coming out to see her. In the latest such instance, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, she held a rally and her campaign ballyhooed the line of people waiting to get in.
Here’s the catch: They were waiting to get in to see a local celebrity musician, one Bon Iver, who gave a free concert as an in-kind campaign contribution (which I am sure…