Ain’t workin’ for the Marxists and disillusioned Centrists on the Titanic

Barack and Michelle Obama look to add a flavor of 2008 to Harris’s bid

Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois. In 2008, she knocked on doors for him in Iowa ahead of the caucuses that helped propel him to the presidency. On Tuesday night, he will return to his hometown of Chicago to deliver a speech at the Democratic National Convention that he hopes will do the same for her.

Obama arrives at this moment balancing his governing partnership with and affection for President Joe Biden and his friendship with Harris. Having helped engineer, with other party leaders, Biden’s departure from the 2024 campaign, Obama is no doubt determined to remain respectful of his vice president while pointing to a post-Biden future for his party and reviving the sense of hope that marked his 2008 campaign. — WAPO

Our Take: Ashe in America and Patrick Gunnels will undoubtedly have thoughts on the actual statements given by Barack and Michelle at Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention on the Rumble edition of the Brief, but, since we’re in the realm of editorializing, here, I’m going to do what I do best, and focus on the Narrative.

The Obamas being back in the Central Narrative is not the win the establishment media apparatus seems to think it is, as the modern persuasion of the shrinking Democratic party doesn’t so much identify as Democrats, but a strange, chaotic mix of Marxists and disillusioned Centrists, with some legacy Dems left for good measure, whose votes were never going to be under threat by the MAGA agenda in any event.

Ostensibly, if you’re looking to drum up support for what seems to be positioned as an ultra new age progressive ticket with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, you want to distance yourself from the Old Guard, rather than relying on it to propel you further into the very establishment branding you’ve worked so hard to shed.

Of course, Harris is far less popular than any of the figures pumping her at the DNC, including the Obamas, no matter what this community thinks of them … but their standing has never been lower in the Collective American Mind, and stagnation is often the death of the Finite Player.

So, all that remains to be seen is … are the Obamas and Clintons truly rolling out the red carpet to endorse Kamala Harris ahead of an even more absurdist election steal than they effected in 2020?

Or are they prepping the mass psychological ground for an October surprise that everyone on both sides of the game board seems to be projecting awareness of?

The clock is ticking, the band is playing … and the deck chairs are being rearranged.

How long before this thing sinks, and what form will the iceberg take? — Burning Bright

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