Talk about an unexpected formulation! The media and Democrat narratives (but I repeat myself) have painted this cycle as a referendum on Donald Trump. It’s all hands on deck to stop the second term of a president who, er … created significant economic growth, started no new wars, and kept Iran and its proxies boxed in. Trump poisoned the well after the 2020 election, but democracy didn’t end then, and it’s not going to end in a second Trump term.
In those narratives, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or AOC as the alternative … which is why the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) keep promoting that as the main electoral narratives.
One might expect other independents on the Left to fly the same flag, especially the Robert Kennedy Jr ticket. And yet RFK running mate Nicole Shanahan — a Silicon Valley progressive — casts Kamala Harris as…