I noticed that was uncited/unsourced/unquoted, but I'm sure you actually were knee deep in her campaign for District Attorney during W's first term in office.
It is amazing how quickly the right-wing media just gets you folks onto a narrative. CRT, transgender, Harris's campaigning while an official in San Francisco? It is impressive. Scary as all fuck, but impressive.
Not just to accept the narrative, but believe it wholeheartedly and push it at every opportunity. As has been said, Trump was trying to drive a wedge with the black voters, and the fact that he even said it in front of that audience? They're black journalists who report on black issues affecting the black community (some of whom were no doubt also biracial) and he came off like the classic "I can't be racist because I know black people" guy.
As far as the "Harris slept her way to the top" thing, that attack falls apart for a couple reasons. Yes, she dated Willie Brown, which can be said by a lot of women. He did give her a low level job in city government, but then what? She went onto become a successful prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and Vice President. She may have gotten her foot in the door due to her relationship with Brown, but after that everything was on her own merits. And it's weird that this is the line of attack from a campaign to elect a man who hired his own wildly unqualified daughter for a high level job in the White House, which she promptly turned around and used to make millions for her personal business in China, violating the Hatch Act like breaking that law was her only job.
What else did Ivanka do in her time in government that she got by virtue of nepotism? Why doesn't Derec ever bring that up if he's so concerned about unqualified people in the White House? Of all Trump's children, Ivanka is the only one you could say would be successful on her own (she does seem to be the smartest one...like keeping her distance from this whole mess this time around) but she definitely used her daddy's name to get ahead. I've seen some pretty awful things said about Harris on the topic of her time dating Brown, but the right wing never has an unkind word to say about Trump's oldest daughter or her husband (who nabbed a billion-dollar deal for himself while working - wildly unqualified - in the White House).
And getting back to the misogyny thing, the attack on Harris "sleeping her way to the top" is yet another example that goes back years. If she were a man who'd been a top prosecutor, AG, Senator, and VP, she'd be hailed as eminently qualified to be President. Where have we heard this stuff before? Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was accused of riding her husband's coat-tails, though if you look at the facts, she was arguably the smarter and better lawyer, and by the time she ran for the White House, she was arguably the most qualified candidate of any race or gender. Ever. Eminently well-educated, experienced attorney, Senator, Secretary of State, and one of the most consequential First Ladies in history, with a deep knowlege of the inner workings of the White House.
She lost (thanks to the EC) to a guy who only got rich because of his daddy. And here we are again, 12 years later. "She's shrill. I don't like her laugh. She slept her way to the top. She's not qualified. Women are too emotional. Is she going to be ready when that 3am phone call comes in?"
It's Sofa King frustrating.
