For all of the media odes to Kamala Harris and her “joy,” the Friday edition of PBS News Hour may have been the most effusive. New York Times columnist David Brooks declared “it’s just who she is,” host Geoff Bennett mused about “attacks on her joyful warrior approach,” and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed “she is the culture.”
Bennett began by reading from a recent Brooks column, “‘Right now, I’d say Kamala Harris is benefiting from the beginning of a cultural shift and is beginning to have the cultural winds at her back. Donald Trump is beginning to be slapped in the face by those winds.’ Tell me more.”
Brooks recalled his many travels, “And one thing I have noticed is people talking about negativity. They’re just tired of the negativity of our public life.”
The man who gushed over Barack…
