Democrats want paradoxes to rule the election. They want to praise President Joe Biden as one of the best presidents the nation has seen, while Vice President Kamala Harris ditches nearly all of his strategies and policies. They want to make a sharp turn from Harris’s stunningly low approval ratings to an entire party standing behind her, specifically.
So far, it has worked. They have been able to sell these points with minimal dissonance, certainly none from the Left. But it was not just an early strategy employed to lift the Harris campaign off the ground: The Democratic Party pivots around such paradoxes.
In one sense, they must because the only position from which their policies cohere is opposite traditional sensibilities. The grand coup of Biden was plain backstabbing, but it had to be done, and then had to be converted into an honor story. Likewise, it is paradoxical to champion abortion and independence as tantamount to women’s happiness, so the Democratic Party leans fully into it (even when they concede that it doesn’t work). It is paradoxical to decriminalize illegal immigration in the name of solving it, yet the Harris-Walz ticket maintains that it supports working families. And, of course, it is paradoxical to suggest price controls as a means of fixing the economy.
Through all of their bending backward for arbitrary social issues, Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pass over the basics. People want money in their pockets and food on the table. These are more decisive issues than the Democrats pretend as they try to win over small-town and other struggling voters. From the South Side neighborhood of Chicago, one interview shows a surprising number of endorsements for former President Donald Trump:
One man says to “pump some money in here like Trump,” and that is not a big ask. Rather, Harris and Walz have constructed a complicated, abortion-centered campaign. A growing number of Black voters for Trump is a paradox the Democratic Party might not have predicted, but has earned.
In another sense, the Democrats rely on paradoxes because they are stuck on Trump. Politicians such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Biden make it the mission of their careers to defeat him.
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Former President Barack Obama, during his Democratic National Convention speech on Tuesday, pushed the idea that, “Trump wants us to think this country is hopelessly divided: between us and them.” His was an odd statement, given the hyper-focus he gave to Trump during the speech. More than his charge of an “us versus them” ideology, Obama embodied one of “us versus him.”
The great Democratic paradox is that, for them, the election is not about offering change or “hope.” It is hardly even about politics. They work from the fiction of defeating a one-man danger to democracy, and this is where they lose out on the sensible voters they are trying to gain.
