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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024

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Which would work if gun control was the only thing democrats have been harping on. The democrats have been screaming that trump is a threat to democracy and someone took up that call to arms. People aren't nearly as consistently stupid as we think, and this is an animating moment far above ANYTHING the dems have as a rallying cry. Someone tried to kill a presidential candidate who was running on hot culture war issues. There is zero chance a gun control pivot will stick to the wall.

Culture war is for the base, not the margins/swing voters. The current Dem angle seems to be “we’re taking this extremely seriously, it’s unacceptable, the secret service fucked up”. Then they may sprinkle some gun control into that over the next few days. That’s the best path they can take right now.

True, but the democratic base is what conservatives hate. The rhetoric is always against the far left antifa, with the Squad as the bogeyman of choice as opposed to competent normies like Mark Kelly or even Biden on his lucid days. The threat is that the democrats will be hostage to their far left hamas tranny commie blm base and will be helpless against the destruction of America. Bidens visible brain fogs make the threat of DEI Kamala putting his signature on some mandatory trans law more probabls e to people who hate that, and I will stand by my assessment that many more people hate trans and blm stuff than support them.

How pro-BLM/trans is Kamala? She seems more like a relatively centrist formerly ‘tough on crime’ 90s-style DA who was parachuted into the role because she’s technically a black and Asian woman and very loyal to Biden.

I don’t think Kamala’s personal views are substantially to the left of Biden’s, she’s certainly much closer to him than to ‘the squad’ or the DSA.

apologies, my usage of 'dei kamala' was to reflect the messaging percolating within the more frothy parts of sotto voce rightist discourse. kamala is a rather bog standard black-when-convenient public figure, more climber than activist. nevertheless the ememy for righties remains 'antifa blm hamas communists' and democrat pushback against forces are viewed as anemic.

Kamala is simply not articulate enough to play for the center.

Yeah for sure I agree with that analysis.

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