Candidate Kamala Harris
A new contender, a new hope. The narrative on democracy still unfinished.
Democrats, during the post-debate “political crisis” handled themselves poorly, drawing on the candidate’s aging concerns. (1) Now the campaign to keep Trump out of the White House will be launched by a different voice, one unafraid to use the terms ‘abortion’ and ‘freedom’ in the same sentence.
‘A vote for President Kamala Harris is a vote against Donald Trump.’ This premise weighs on the choices voters will make in November. In the process will we lose sight of the fact that a Trump victory means the “end of democracy as we know it?”
What I fear is what M. Gessen wrote in a recent opinion piece in The New York Times last week (2), before Biden announced that he was leaving the ticket.
“Biden and Trump represent entirely different values and policies. This country was a very different place when Trump was president than it has been during Biden’s term. If Trump is elected in November, the difference will most likely be even greater. This week’s convention has given us a glimpse of Trump’s Republican Party not as the amateur agent of chaos that it used to be but as an institutionalized, normalized one. Biden is right: Trump poses an existential threat to democracy.
