Harris' Conservative Culture Play

Sunday, September 22, 2024

KAMA! From camo hats to libertarian rhetoric, the Kamala Harris campaign is staking its claim to symbols of conservative identity.

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Even as she advocates for gun control measures, she used the comments to signal not only that she didn't support confiscating guns, but that she has a personal stake in the Second Amendment.

Zoom out: The comments follow a pattern of Harris and Walz claiming rhetorical turf that has long been held by Republicans.

Harris' campaign launch video was centered around "freedom," a pervasive conservative rallying cry for resisting liberal policies on taxation, gun control and government regulation.

Harris and Walz are using it to advocate for abortion rights and fight interventionist policies like school book bans and curriculum directives.

Tim Walz's biography " his rural Nebraska upbringing, football coaching experience and everyday dad persona " serve to build up the ticket's Middle America credentials. And his "mind your own damn business" refrain taps into a libertarian sensibility.

These embraces have caught on as Democratic rallying cries this campaign."

The camouflage Harris-Walz campaign hat instantaneously sold out.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-21 10:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

... KAMA! From camo hats to libertarian rhetoric, the Kamala Harris campaign is staking its claim to symbols of conservative identity ...

Yeah, when Democrats sew the American Flag on to the back pocket of their jeans and then, at a rally, sit on the ground, grinding that American Flag into the dirt...

That is when I will believe the Democrats are lowering themselves to staking their claim to the symbols of the current conservative identity.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-21 10:20 PM | Reply

I was born in the Eisenhower administration and it's taken me this long to see the Democrats have their $#!+ together.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-09-21 10:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Recognizing Hilly's big mistake.
The whole "deplorables" thing was a political mistake of the highest order and, more likely lost her the election than anything Comey or CNN did. Alienating a large chunk the population and giving them something to rally around was just about the stupidest thing I've seen in 60 years, politically speaking.

#4 | Posted by morris at 2024-09-22 12:26 AM | Reply

@#4 ... The whole "deplorables" thing was a political mistake of the highest order ...

I do not disagree.

Did that mistake lose her the election?

I'm not there yet.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-22 12:35 AM | Reply

The whole "deplorables" thing was a political mistake...

Telling the truth in politics can be a bad idea.

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-09-22 10:07 AM | Reply

"We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,"

Believe them when they tell you.
-sanctity of your locked home
-we're going to walk into that home

If home is locked, how are you gonna do that? Break in?
Harris tells Oprah-
"If somebody breaks in my house, they're getting shot."

Even if it's your own commie tyranny thugs?

#7 | Posted by beef_supreme at 2024-09-22 11:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The------------- is a felon who can't own a gun.

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-22 11:27 AM | Reply

Posted by beef_supreme

Oh, great.

New idiot sock puppet.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-09-22 11:33 AM | Reply

New idiot sock puppet.

Well, waffles is in jail.