I'm English and so have no dog in this particular fight. It seems to me that you lot are unlikely, whatever the outcome, to end up with a first-class president, but if Trump or Harris is the best you can find, so be it.
One thing does strike me, having kept a weather eye on the discussion over the last few months. While you all, with one or two exceptions, derive what I must assume to be enormous pleasure from shouting into the echo chamber of Trump mockery, some, most or all of which may be entirely justified, I don't recall having read a single supportive comment about Harris (no doubt I'll be corrected if I've missed something). A widely-held view on this side of the Atlantic, at least until a couple of months ago, was that she was perhaps the only Democrat more likely than Biden to lose to Trump, but that's not something one often hears now. Of course, as we very well know over here, if your opponents are sufficiently disliked it's possible to win, and to win big, merely by being blandly innocuous. Is that the idea?
Just curious.
Jeremy
Fair question. I'm Canadian, also with no oar in this river except for proximity.
One things that media people have mentioned is how Trump takes up all the oxygen in the room, which may partly account for why there is no discussion of Harris's details. There is no time (or energy) left over to do so.
She might represent "politics as usual", in some sense, and that doesn't ever attract much attention, especially in the current hyper political climate. It's too bland. When people believe that elections are rigged, or that California is "communist" or that the occasional trans kid is causing the downfall of society, who has time for bland politicians who might just want to do the job.
By and large we live well, and there is no need to tear everything apart and start over. If all Harris does is calm everyone the f**k down, she will have done well from my standpoint.
Does she have a "vision" for the US? I have no idea, but do any of them have any vision about anything? And is that a desired attribute anyway? I'm too practical to want anyone with "vision". If they can keep the bridges from falling down, hospitals staffed with competent people, and help to put crooks in jail (especially the financial crooks), that's vision enough for me. We're lucky to get 1 or 2 people per century with vision, why should the US be so lucky to get one of them running for office.
To your specific question, I did listen to a podcast many years ago, probably before Covid, that criticized some of the things Harris did while working as a district attorney. But that's a bit like saying nothing. Who could not be criticized for something in a job like that. It could be that to a lot of people, the fact that she was promoted to that job at all puts her far above her opponent when it comes to personal achievement.
My main interest in the subject of Trump is my constant amazement at the lunacy that people are willing to sign on to. But the whole thing is becoming a bit sad these days, he seems ill to me.
