This writer can recall a Kamala shill saying in an interview a year or two ago that Harris had had many accomplishments as VP, though he declined to name a single one. Her office had a culture of bullying, that was one thing that did become public knowledge about her. As the sudden candidate, she benefitted from Biden’s campaign transferring to her en masse; Macdara cannot accept the argument that she had to be the candidate because of money donated to a campaign with her name attached to it—it could not be beyond the ability of the party to have made the necessary calls to get donors to transfer money to whomever else was made candidate instead. Harris’s huge campaign fund demonstrates that people were keen to donate to a non-Trump candidate (even her). One could argue that it was inertia that caused them to choose her, but it was an inertia brought about by a fear that the Left might stage a coup if the party undertook any kind of democratic process. The party lacked the discipline that would have prevailed upon her to stand aside at the same time as Biden for family reasons, perhaps, or a health scare; they utterly lacked the will to assess who could actually beat Trump, and get them at the head of the ticket. There is no institutional memory of Tammany, no ability to get things done.

Of course Macdara’s take is that all that was required was that the Liberal Right field a candidate; it was not necessary for her to win, it was only a structural requirement of Capitalism in its current mode that there be an apparent Opposition. This is why there was no pause for this Loyal Opposition—a useful phrase from English managed democracy—to choose a strong candidate; that was not their concern, they merely needed a person to run. By way of proof: ask yourself, reader, if it is thinkable that whatever fightback the Democrats undertake will be led by Harris? No. If the lazy directionless Democratic wing of the Establishment does fight back, it will not be under the woman who got seven million votes less than Biden did in 2020. She is spoken of entirely in the past tense. She was a fleeting phenomenon, associated with a few confusing memes that were mistaken as proof of mass public enthusiasm.