It is unclear to me how a president who termed out 8 years ago is “the future”, but MSNBC is running that in the hopes of projecting Harris as the next avatar of Obamism. This stuff is the coverage equivalent of the creepy Shepard Fairey poster. Everything is a contrived callback to “Hope and Change”.
This includes the incessant evocation of the “coalition of the ascendant” that would permanently transform American politics upon elevating Obama to power. Wagner does that here, per her usual racial minimalism:
So nobody's ready to write the epigraph for the Trump years, but I do think, you know, it's a powerful suggestion, right? That Barack Obama is the future. That Kamala Harris is the future and that Donald Trump is the past and that the sort of white patriarchal society that allowed Donald Trump to profiteer as much as he has is going into the rear view, right? "That's a powerful, distressing idea if you are part of the white patriarchy like Donald Trump and his supporters".
It is important to remember that this is someone who gave us the first known case of Vance Derangement Syndrome on national television by proclaiming JD Vance’s desire to bury his family in the family plot as an instance of white supremacy. Now, in the service of that same racial essentialism, Wagner pitches Obama and Harris as the antidote to that white supremacy. The Regime Media have reverted to the Hope and Change playbook. Hope and Joy Muthaf*cka!
~ Thank You Larwyn's Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage! ~
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