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The truth about Kamalamania

30 July 2024

8:18 PM

30 July 2024

8:18 PM

In a society that worships the self, identity politics is a very powerful force. We see this now in Kamalamania – the dizzying speed with which the vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee has been turned, through mass acclamation, from national embarrassment to Democratic saviour.

Will Kamalamania last until the election is over?

The fact that Harris’s transfiguration doesn’t make much sense is sort of the point – the more improbable it seems the better.

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