by Mark Karlin, 11/1/2024′
Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie
| Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie |
On Friday, November 1, 2024 at 02:46:47 PM PDT, mark karlin <markkarlin@gmail.com> wrote:
Ever since the Sunday that Joe Biden relinquished his grip on running for re-election, Kamala Harris put the pedal to the metal and hasn’t let up. On Sunday, July 21, Biden called Harris in the morning to give her a heads up that he was abandoning his campaign for re-election. From that moment on, she has masterfully maximized a truncated campaign schedule in which she has proved herself energized, innovative, unflappable and focused. In short, she has proven, by any reasonable measurement, that she has the strength, agility, acuity and resilience to be America’s next commander-in-chief. As a Washington Post columnist wrote today, she has met the moment.
As Trump has ratched up his vile campaign of hate, fear, and demonization, Harris has, with strategic candor and laser-like precision, called him on his “unserious” effort to win a second term. After nearly a decade of the media normalizing Trump’s fascism and lethal rhetoric, Harris unleashed a bold and withering campaign to take him at his word. She frequently invoked Maya Angelou’s advice, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” As the press and other Democratic leaders shied away from calling out Trump’s deranged, rambling, malicious and violent rhetoric, Harris gave the nation an enormous gift: Revealing the truth about the profound danger and incoherence of Trump’s demented dark ramblings and threatened unconstitutional actions in a second term.
Harris not only left Trump shambling in the dust during their only debate, she was fearlessly on message through her entire campaign, pivoting as needed, but never rattled, never showing the slightest sign of being distracted by Trump’s Barnum and Bailey reality TV campaign to create an “American Carnage” version of “The Apprentice.”
Straight out of the gate, she called him a “petty dictator” and then later “a fascist.” Other Democrats and elite newspapers like The New York Times would not call Trump a liar, but Harris was not intimidated by Trump’s “Alpha male” bilious rhetoric. As she recently advised undecided voters, just watch one of his rallies and take what he says as what he means.
As Trump and his fluffer acolytes distilled their messaging down to “trust the bad daddy” to discipline America, as he promised to “protect” women and get them to forget about abortion, as he unleashed violent rhetoric such as threatening firing squads for Lynn Cheney and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Harris and her campaign unflinchingly held him accountable.Harris never lost her footing, never veered from her mission, almost daily getting Trump to be thrown of anyone has lingering doubts if she has what it takes to be president, her campaign proves that she is capable, ready and wise. What she has accomplished in less than 90 days will be looked back as a master class in running for president.
A presidential campaign is a massive task, being both the candidate and director of a sprawling and multi-faceted operation. It takes a nimble and imperturbable individual to fly through the turbulent and treacherous test of character demanded by running for president.
In every respect, she has aced the test.
Mark Karlin
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