The Democratic Party was poised, once again, to make history. Not only was there a woman – again — at the top of the ticket, but one with a range of color. What a coup it would have been. But the glass ceiling remains intact, which does not describe the confused and chaotic mental state of the losing class still conducting an autopsy on a barely breathing party. Excuses range from poor campaign strategy, abandoning voters’ needs, to poor old Joe Biden not being aware enough to step down months prior – all decent rationalizations that on their own wouldn’t have made a dent in the vote.
But the Kamala Harris campaign was a perfect storm of poor strategy, tone deafness, and the Marie Antoinette effect that the pandemic made clear to the little guys and gals. That left room for a populist who could relate to the steelworkers, farmers,…