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Are we beginning to see the shape of a post-Trump politics emerging in America, a politics in which there is some common ground? For the Republican Party, the future now lies not in a Trumpian cultish dystopia, but in the vision articulated by J.D. Vance.
Vance proclaims: “We’re going to build factories again, put people to work making real products for American families, made with the hands of American workers.” For the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris will also address the very real problems of the working poor. She performed her role as vice president to Biden with great loyalty.
She was handed a poisoned chalice in the immigration portfolio. But we should not fall into the trap of the sexist and racist memes demonising her theme of “diversity, equity, inclusion”. Today, the lack of all three is a real issue for America.
In her 2019 bid to become the presidential candidate, she said, “This economy is not working for working people” (“ Harris economy may be more progressive than ‘Bidenomics’ ,” 23/7), a view she shares with J.D. Vance.
Nicholas Low, Cape Paterson An inspired option Kamala Harris has all the qualities to be the next president of the United States and every step of her journey has led her to this role. Sh.