{"id":1483484,"date":"2024-08-14T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1483484"},"modified":"2024-08-14T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:35:00","slug":"is-mean-girls-a-winning-script-for-kamala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/is-mean-girls-a-winning-script-for-kamala\/1483484\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Mean Girls’ A Winning Script For Kamala?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is ‘Mean Girls’ A Winning Script For Kamala?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Commentary by Richard Porter via RealClearPolitics<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

With stunning swiftness, Donald J. Trump knocked President Biden out of the presidential campaign with the one, two, three of a dominating debate, a near-death experience, and a compelling convention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, also with stunning swiftness, the entire Democrat media\/cultural complex coalesced around Joe Biden\u2019s famously vacuous veep, best known for her meaningless word salads, inappropriate giggles, and utter ineffectiveness at dealing with the chaos at the border.<\/p>\n

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Yet in August, Democrats are coronating June\u2019s misfit as their new queen bee, forcing Trump to win the election by beating Kamala Harris, who\u2019s trying a different strategy and who offers different challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 strategy is to win by being cool, not by being competent. Democrats aren\u2019t even trying to prove that she has the brains, judgment, and gravitas to be the leader of the free world. Instead, they\u2019re embracing her skin-deep nature, highlighting her energy and appearance, and building her campaign on a foundation of social memes, social standing \u2013 and social ridicule, too.<\/p>\n

For example, when British pop star Charlie XCX said that \u201cKamala is brat\u201d \u2013 cool-girl slang for someone who\u2019s disorganized and says dumb things, but powers through it and gets what she wants anyway\u00a0 \u2013 Kamala\u2019s campaign immediately embraced the meme.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call it Kamala\u2019s \u201cMean Girls\u201d strategy: Turn the 2024 presidential campaign into an election for prom queen. (\u201cMean Girls<\/a>\u201d is Tina Fey\u2019s brilliant political allegory about a high school girl named Regina George who leverages her looks, gossip, and adolescent insecurities and cravings to rule over the student body \u2013 until the uncool kids topple her to restore their freedom.)<\/p>\n

The Harris campaign isn\u2019t even subtle about its strategy. Campaigns choose rally music to reinforce campaign themes. So, who did the campaign ask to headline its Atlanta rally? Megan Thee Stallion, who calls herself the \u201cBlack Regina George\u201d and mimics the movie in her \u201cNot My Fault\u201d video.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crazy to think that the leader of the free world could be elected with tactics high school bullies use to dominate a student body, <\/strong>but her skin-deep strategy closed the Biden chasm by co-opting other cool people and controlling the gossip, turning this back into a close contest.<\/p>\n

Kamala wasn\u2019t cool in June before the Hollywood\/media\/cultural clique unified around their newly anointed leader. But her social standing soared when glamorous Hollywood stars showered her with money and love, and beautiful anchors and hip commentators on all mainstream media outlets gushed over her in unison while burying any talk of previous policies and statements.<\/p>\n

Her first anti-Trump riposte is right out of the movie, too,<\/strong> as she and her parroting cool clique seek to make Trump and J.D. Vance as socially toxic as high school Mathletes. \u201cThey\u2019re weird!\u201d the Queen and her acolytes say in unison (and everyone knows it\u2019s social suicide to like people who are weird)!<\/p>\n

So, how should the Trump team bring Kamala George down? The 2004 movie and the 2016 campaign (when Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables\u201d social cut backfired) offer suggestions.<\/p>\n

First<\/strong>, undermine the Democrats\u2019 standing by ridiculing their nominee\u2019s skin-deep strategy. Team Trump has always been adept at labeling and defining opponents, and they are already hard at work. Social media memes are flying on the right, almost all of which highlight the many vapid things Harris has said or done; keep updating these to mock her strategy now.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, remind voters why they didn\u2019t take Kamala seriously as recently as June: She has no common sense, and her policies help her rich friends at our expense. J.D. Vance is already laser-focused on highlighting all the ways in which Harris\u2019 policies make us worse off today than we were four years ago.<\/p>\n

Third<\/strong>, force the vice president onto a stage where she can be questioned about how the current administration\u2019s policies have affected real lives; people will want to know what she\u2019s got going on up there, to paraphrase Kamala\u2019s spirit animal Charli XCX. This will work as well for Kamala as it did for Regina George.<\/p>\n

Finally<\/strong>, remember that Democrats live in a make-believe world. Donald Trump can climb into that world and ridicule it, but the real world always intervenes, and when it does, Republicans should contrast Trump\u2019s toughness with Kamala\u2019s fluff.<\/p>\n

As the movie ends, the \u201cMean Girls\u201d queen is hit by a bus because she literally lacks street sense. Trump needs to reassure America that he has the common sense to manage our very real problems and the courage to fight for us \u2013 and that no bus will take America down when he\u2019s president again.<\/p>\n

Richard Porter is a lawyer in Chicago and National Committeeman to the RNC from Illinois.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 08\/13\/2024 – 22:35<\/span><\/p>\n

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