And these women candidates were also easy scapegoats. There were supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders who blamed Warren when he did not win the Democratic nomination in 2020. Hillary Clinton is still routinely blamed for the fact that Donald Trump became president, and then everything he did while president, because she lost to him in 2016. As Ralph Nader, who ran for president and lost four times, recently tweeted: “A dictatorial, unelected majority in the Supreme Court has just rendered America a dictatorial president above the law. Thank you Hillary Clinton, whose blundering campaign let the dictatorial Trump become president and led to a rightwing dictatorial majority on the Supreme Court.”
So, if Harris becomes the Democratic nominee and loses, who do you think the country will blame? Forgive me for my cynicism, but I did not just fall out of a coconut tree, and I’ve seen how this works. Rather than place blame on Trump himself, or any of his right wing supporters, or Biden for not stepping aside earlier, or even swing state voters, it will be easier to blame Harris.
In his endorsement of Harris, Biden wrote, “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats—it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
What the statement does not address is that at the time, Biden billed himself as a “transition” candidate, and the implication was that he would not seek a second term. How much easier would he have made electing Harris had he stuck to that pledge and endorsed her from the start of this election cycle?
I sincerely hope we do elect our first woman president this year. I just wish she’d had this much support from the start, and felt less like a backup solution. Maybe then it wouldn’t feel quite so perilous right now.
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