The Democratic National Convention, where elite party bosses, their lackeys, and their overlords — the big donors and corporations — spent four days trying to make us forget the past four years of misery they caused, is mercifully over. They spun folksy tales to sell us on their new figurehead, Kamala Harris, who’s attempting to shift her deep-blue image to a middle-of-the-road people’s purple.
But that’s almost beside the point. Like her doddering predecessor, if she’s elevated to the Oval Office, she clearly won’t be making any consequential decisions. Instead, her handlers will trot her out on stage with a script to read whenever it’s time to put on a good show for the rubes in the cheap seats. She might even do a
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