Anand Giridharadas joined Wednesday’s episode of ‘Morning Joe’ to explain why he believes Vice President Kamala Harris’s VP pick is going to be a perfect example of what an older white man should be.
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Discussing the Tuesday night Harris rally in Pennsylvania, Giridharadas explained why he believes Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is going to be the best running mate for this campaign.
“I think it’s a very significant moment. I think John Heilemann is right, that a lot of us in the journalist or pundit class are maybe a little bit slow on the uptake of what this is because we’re used to an older paradigm. I think a lot of us were trained in a pre-authoritarian Republican moment, a pre-fascist Republican playbook. Running against people like Mitt Romney and so strategies about swing states and those kinds of things came out of those experiences. We are now at a moment when the right in this country is an authoritarian movement, an increasingly fascistic movement,” he complained.
“And part of what you see in authoritarian movements around the world is that they make people feel things, right? They make people emotional. They get the blood up. And Democrats for too long have been running against authoritarianism with wonkiness, with policy, with material things, with bridges and roads, all very worthy things, but not competing on the level of getting the blood up, making people feel,” Giridharadas continued.
“This is a campaign that understands the importance of vibes. Vibes can sound dismissive or like some Gen Z thing, but it’s actually about competing against authoritarianism when they’re very directly targeting the limbic system of the voters and it’s actually Democrats joining the contests for people’s hearts, not just the brain. And I think when you talk about a figure like Coach Walz, obviously there were a bunch of good notes around the freedom frame, patriotism, things like that. The biggest significance of this man is that he is an older white man in a moment in which the far right is trying to convince people that the future is treacherous for them, trying to convince men that the future is treacherous for them, and here is an older white man, a coach, a soldier who is very hard to dismiss.”
Apparently white people have a lot to learn from someone like Walz.
“There is joy in the future. There is joy in having your boss be a Black woman. There is joy in what is coming, and I think he is going to teach lots of people in addition to whatever role he plays in the election and in the White House. He’s going to teach lots of people through his role in the culture that they’re gonna be okay, and that there’s joy on the far side of realizing a multi-racial democracy in this country.”
In a follow-up post on X, Giridharadas referred to Walz as a “PSA for white folks, older folks, men, rural dwellers, and others: You don’t need to be afraid of the future.”
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