Can Kamala Get the Working-Class Vote?

Over the years, The New Yorker Magazine has carried some of the most important and tellingly perceptive political journalism, and to the magazine’s credit, unlike so many other political periodicals, they have not succumbed to the lure of click-bait content which has affected so many other publications in a negative way.

The magazine continues to publish serious, detailed and often instructively original writing, of which the latest and certainly a superb instance of excellent journalism is the piece by our friend Evan Osnos which covers how Kamala and her staff put together a national Presidential campaign in less than two weeks’ time, and how becoming the primary challenger to Donald Trump was both clearly within Kamala’s long-time political behavioral profile, as well as requiring her to move forcefully and quickly into areas of interest and concern that were both a new adventure for her, as well as a reshaping of political perspectives for the Democrat(ic) Party as a whole.

Osnos recounts how on July 21st, the day Biden called and told Kamala that he was out, and she was in, the Vice President made over 100 telephone calls to kick off her campaign, a pace which has not slowed from then until now. He also details how some of the Party’s luminaries such as Barack Obama and others held off immediately endorsing her campaign but eventually fell in…