Tom Slater
Spiked, Aug. 23, 2024
“Virtue-signalling, triangulation, bloodless managerialism – this has ruled over Democratic politics for a long time now. But identitarianism has made matters so much worse.”
Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she can read from an autocue with the best of them. The vice-president turned nominee for president gave her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last night and displayed the requisite polish to get through 40 minutes of a tightly scripted speech – with the usual mix of rose-tinted autobiography, wispy platitudes and focus-grouped attack lines – while still appearing to have a pulse. It’s a low bar, but one her somnambulant predecessor, President Joe Biden, was struggling to clear by the end of his candidacy.…. [To read the full article, click here]