But now that the dust has settled and Vice President Kamala Harris has officially become the first Black and South Asian woman to accept a major party’s presidential nomination, the 2024 DNC will be remembered not only as a history-making event, but also as the place where the saying “when they go low, we go high” disappeared.
Eight years ago, when Democrats gathered in Philadelphia to nominate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee, then-first lady Michelle Obama uttered seven ill-fated words: a well-intentioned but ultimately doomed philosophy that seemed to condone Democrats’ long history of bringing water guns into semi-automatic gunfights.
What happened next was definitely not Michelle Obama’s fault. The normalization of former President Donald Trump From racist, sexist and xenophobic rhetoric to historically poor messaging to half-hearted attempts to fight for reproductive justice and counter pro-life lies, America’s Progressive Party has long been conditioned to believe that it can win simply by seizing the moral high ground.
Four years of Trump in office and MAGA conspiracy theorists infiltrating the House and Senate have proven this isn’t true.
But that was then, and this is now.
Now, instead of appeasing the hypocritical and malicious Republican Party with the excuse of “partisanship,” the Democrats have decided to launch a full-scale, unapologetic, and corrective attack on the party that has degenerated into a brazen personality cult.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has singled out the Republican Party as “the weird one” for being so damaging to the GOP’s presidential nomination that the party is now facing a vice presidential nomination on Jan. 1, 2020. “We swear that we are very ordinary people” Gaslighting Tour.
Meanwhile, Harris has consistently touted her experience as a former prosecutor and attorney general while also drawing attention to Trump’s felonies, lawsuits and the fact that a jury found the swashbuckling “woman-grabbing” candidate liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
“I’ve dealt with all kinds of bullies,” Harris said at several rallies. “I know the type of person Donald Trump is.”
Following Trump’s rallies, speeches and addresses, the campaign has been issuing mic-drop statements with titles like: “Trump’s statement… whatever it was, “Donald Trump is too afraid to debate Kamala Harris.“And (my favorite) “JD Vance is a weirdo (who wants to ban abortion nationwide).“
(“Happy World IVF Day to everyone except JD Vance” (The second one came in a close second.)
But it was the DNC that waved the flag of joy in support of the Democratic Party’s “when they go low, we go high” mentality.
Democrats didn’t do a favor, whether it was former President Barack Obama criticizing Trump’s obsession with his physique, comedian D.L. Hughley’s crowd-pleaser that Trump finally learned “what it’s like to be dumped by a young woman” when many Republicans were supporting Harris, or GOP intentionally spreading rumors that Beyoncé would make a surprise guest appearance to get more people to watch.
At the party, Mrs. Obama herself delivered a moving eulogy.
The former first lady deftly paraphrased Trump’s comments about immigrants stealing “black jobs,” asking the captive crowd, “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s seeking might just be one of those ‘black jobs?’” She attacked the Republican presidential nominee as a “failure” and a beneficiary of “generational affirmative action”—without mentioning him by name.
In a move that has been criticized by Shoryuken, she accused Trump of having a “limited and narrow view of the world” that makes him “feel threatened by the presence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happen to be black.”
Then on the final night of the DNC, Harris accepted the party’s presidential nomination.She brushed aside the legacy of the twice-impeached former president, calling him a “non-serious man” who “sent an armed mob into the U.S. Capitol” and was ultimately “convicted of fraud by a jury made up of everyday Americans and convicted separately of sexual abuse.”
“Imagine Donald Trump without any safeguards, how he would use the extraordinary powers of the President of the United States,” Harris continued. “Not to improve your life. Not to strengthen our national security. Not to serve the only client he has: himself.”
The Democrats’ “finally take the gloves off” tactic and the Vice President’s acceptance speech were actually so effective that Trump was raging and swearing on the final night of the DNC. He hilariously wrote on the social platform Truth: “Is she talking about me?”
The disgruntled candidate was so upset by his political rival’s comments that he casually called Fox News and Newsmax. He mutters indistinctly as he presses buttons on his cell phone keypad. It’s about fracking and China.
Trump’s favorite cable news outlet kicked him off the air within 10 minutes.
So while the Democratic presidential campaign is centered around hope, joy, and a positive vision for the future of this country, I think they’re also “Parks and RecreationTom Haverford of “s” itself:
“I’ve never taken the high road, but I tell other people to do so because it gives them more room on the low road.”
