Political Post-Mortem: Pet Rocks, Chia Pets, Furbys, Brat Summer, Coconut-Pilled And Kamala Harris

Posted • December 27, 2024: The post-mortems for Kamala Harris’s disastrous White House run continue. The latest is by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. He focuses on the mass psychosis that spread throughout the Democrat Party and from the mouths and pens of its loyal members in the dying legacy media. Let’s hear what he has to say. -- Historians are already reviewing the mass psychosis that occurred within the Democrat party during 'Brat Summer': Ross Douthat: "Do you remember Brat summer? I remember Brat summer. It was genuinely amazing. One of the most bizarre mass psychological phenomena I've ever seen. Before a clock's spring popped out of Joe Biden's forehead on live TV, Kamala Harris was the least popular vice president in recent US history. There were a lot of reasons for this, but I think the big ones are these: -First, she was already deeply unpopular. The 0% primary polls, remember, before she became the VP.

-Secondly, she'd done absolutely nothing with the position except omit strange and incomprehensible bromides whenever she opened her mouth. But as soon as she became the candidate, despite nothing about her actually changing, her approval ratings skyrocketed. It turns out that all you have to do is tell the Democratic base that they ought to like someone and they'll just start liking her." Fads relegated to the dustbin of history: The Pet Rock, Furby's, Kamala Harris. -- Although the majority of Americans rightfully distrust the ‘news’ media, there is still a sizable number who are easily swayed by nonsense pushed by ‘journalists’ and their fellow Democrats. We have learned from Russiagate, Covid hysteria, George Floyd hysteria, Ukraine hysteria, Israel hysteria, and "Brat Summer" that a significant portion of the population is perpetually susceptible to indoctrination by the media. This % of the population is highly dangerous.

And the more educated they are, the more likely they will be fooled by any and all propaganda. As we’ve since learned from those who ran Kamala’s presidential campaign, she never lead once in any of the campaign’s internal polling. That didn’t stop them from misleading her donors or ‘journos’ from pushing polls that didn’t reflect reality. Hanging on by their fingernails for any bit of relevance. This is hopeless bloviation to explain a disaster that everyone on the in knew was going to happen. The campaign told donors that everything was fine. The MSM polls kept the race close to support the lie. It is quite fascinating. I think a lot of them know but they can’t admit it publicly because doing so would mean all the people they shamed hated labeled insulted ect was wrong. Kamala basically said nothing the whole time and used a lot of words to say it. Everyone knew from the start how horrible Kamala was, but they all turned on a dime, instantly started singing her praises, and began fooling others into believing she was the greatest thing ever. (…)

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