Leader of a cross class, expansive coalition

The problem with some on the left is that they expect Kamala Harris to campaign as a candidate of the left. But she isn’t. She is the leader of and speaks for an expansive cross class, multi-racial coalition, the likes of which I haven’t seen in my lifetime. It stretches from AOC to the Cheneys and includes tens of millions in between. And its mission is to defeat a candidate whose politics fall somewhere between extreme right wing authoritarian and neofascist.

What is more, her challenge is not only to activate this disparate coalition, which she is skillfully and vigorously doing (watch her mass rallies and note her massive ground game), but also to earn the support of a sliver of voters who are so far undecided as to whether to vote for her or Trump, or not vote all.

These voters, and it shouldn’t require any reminding, don’t hang out on the left. They have no desire that is discernable, in my calculus anyway, to “storm heaven.” They are, from nearly all accounts, moderate in their political attitudes. Her appeal, therefore, has to take THEIR political disposition — not the left’s —- into account for their votes could decide who enters the White House in January. Thankfully, she does, while ignoring those on the left whose only advice, no matter what the concrete circumstances, is to up the ante, up the ante.