We Just Hit a Home Run with Harris.

I get the distinct impression that Joe may have decided a while ago to quit, but that he timed the announcement for yesterday in order to not give Trump the opportunity to use the issue to promote himself at the GOP convention, plus Joe needed to line up support for Kammie.

I also happen to think that Kamala running against Trump is a brilliant stroke, assuming of course that her campaign pushes out a narrative which emphasizes her greatest strength and her opponent’s greatest weakness.

In that respect, I never understood why Joe’s campaign seemed to be focused on the ‘threat’ represented by Trump in terms of his alleged assault on democracy, when in fact the average voter couldn’t care less about whether someone’s a Fascist, or an autocrat, or a follower of any other kind of extreme political ideology.

These are ideas which may provoke a discussion in a graduate school political science seminar or pass for some kind of informed rhetoric when a bunch of highly educated readers of The Atlantic Monthly get together for an early-evening, weekend soiree in someone’s Back Bay brownstone apartment overlooking Cambridge and the Charles River.

But those aren’t the votes or the voters that matter in 2024.

What matters this time around is someone driving home from work in a slightly beat-up…