Well, it's official. Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the DNC convention in Chicago, cheered on in the United Center by thousands who couldn't stand her just a few months ago.
President Joe Biden, who still occupies the White House when he isn’t at the beach in Delaware, was hidden away with a speech past primetime Monday night and given a patronizing send-off with chants of "We Love Joe!" Democrats and their allies in the media praised his exit from the 2024 presidential race as "courageous" and lauded his "patriotic" move to "voluntarily" give up power.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who helped tighten the noose around Biden to drop out while former President Barack Obama was handing out the knives used to stab him in the back, gleefully took the stage to welcome in a new era of Kamala.
"I know that Vice President Harris is ready to take us to new heights," Pelosi said. "Politically, she is astute and strategic in winning difficult elections, quickly securing the nomination with dignity and grace and choosing Tim Walz as our vice president."
Pelosi previously implied Harris wasn't the best nominee to beat former President Donald Trump and advocated for an open primary at the convention.
Since Sunday, July 21, when Biden exited the race by posting a letter on the internet, Democrats have invoked a protectionist strategy with their new nominee. They've kept Harris away from cameras and reporters and have carefully crafted her reintroduction to the country. In Chicago, Hollywood carefully produced a wild show full of celebrities, famous musical acts, camouflage hats, a plethora of American flags and a new narrative about who Kamala Harris wants to be.
"We're not going back! She's the future!"
Actually, she's the present, current things and the past.
After her speech Thursday night, which was short on details and long on promises, Harris was praised as a historic figure newly seared into the minds of Americans.
"You will remember where you were. The speech tonight from the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris really introducing herself to the nation," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said, giving a glowing and gushing review. "You are going to remember where you were on this night. This was an inflection point in history."
But Harris has been reintroduced to Americans before, to no avail.
"Despite efforts by the White House to rehabilitate Vice President Kamala Harris' image, she continues to struggle winning over Americans outside of the Democratic tent, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows," USA TODAY reported in March. "The national survey found 52% of registered voters disapprove of her job performance as President Joe Biden's vice president. About 36% approve of how she’s handling the role, trailing Biden's almost equally dismal 41% approval rating."
In their usual deflection and gaslighting, Democrats in the Windy City collectively pretended the past four years of the Biden-Harris administration didn’t exist. They've framed the current vice president as the new change America needs, and her friends in the media have refused to hold her accountable for negative policies implemented under her leadership. As for her vision of the future, they aren't demanding many details and Harris' backers wear blinders.
Further, Harris' positions from her failed 2020 presidential election — which include comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the KKK, abolishing private health insurance, ripping away patents with government force, using the tax dollars earned by hardworking Americans to pay for the healthcare of illegal immigrants, the banning of key energy production like fracking and much more, are to be ignored – like they never existed at all.
On the top issue for voters, the DNC gaslighting was in full force.
"We need to unf**k our economy," California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez said during a DNC event.
Well, Lorena, why exactly is the economy the way it is?
For the past 16 years, Democrats have been in control for 12 — holding power in the White House, U.S. Senate and U.S. House. If things aren't working, it isn't because of a four-year Trump term between 2016-2020. In fact, during Trump's tenure, the economy was thriving and the data proves it was one of the most prosperous times for all Americans in recent history. Under Biden-Harris, wars are waging around the world and Americans are still grappling with an affordability crisis induced by progressive federal spending.
Harris’ job in Chicago was to bring the Democratic coalition, which was falling apart under Biden, back together. She's done that. Now, she'll have to take her arguments to the campaign trail in the swing states — where she'll have to convince voters that she's the person who should fix the things she broke.