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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024

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If you resent underqualified black women being shoved into positions of responsibility as publicity stunts, you're already voting for Trump.

Or you told yourself it was okay cause the VP doesn't have a lot of power anyway.

(and it's not like a former first lady is a priori less qualified than a reality TV show host, 'qualified' has sort of stopped being a thing in politics anyway)

Different brands. In response to Trump the Democrats have doubled down harder on qualifications and being the adults, allegedly.

And she could certainly energize some groups of voters of the left who are pretty apathetic or hostile towards Biden, and might drive up turnout.

This is assuming these apathetic, fringe types strongly favor of Obama or his wife? There's been a lot of disillusionment with the guy. You could say him not turning out to be a transformative president is the formative experience of many on the "Left". A lot of this is blamed on the GOP and McConnell denying his heavenly mandate but not all of it.

Before he and his wife dove into sellout territory making Meghan Markle-esque bland podcasts or working behind the scenes to ensure a smoother primary win for Biden against Bernie.

working behind the scenes to ensure a smoother primary win for Biden against Bernie

Why on Earth wouldn't he help out the guy who'd been his VP for 8 years?

Nobody said it was irrational for him to do.