https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/10/27/theres-something-weird-going-on-about-the-media-coverage-of-kamala-harris-and-her-marxist-father-n4933690#google_vignette

Coming to DC, she becomes a junior Senator, you aren’t really in charge of anything. You are taking direction from leadership, and your staff and committee staff does all the work; you are just in charge of fundraising and schmoozing, where she was also very successful. She had a fairly lackluster legislative record. In the blue states when you have a compliant media, you move your message through narrative building. Obama came out of IL politics, where you can see the combination of agitation groups get media attention which drives the legislation you had planned which pushes the law forward because of the demand to “do something!” No doubt in my opinion that the Jussie Smollet thing was part of an orchestrated effort to create a media narrative to get her anti-lynching bill passed–but that got screwed up.

The Tulsi thing is probably the first time she ever did have to deal with hostilty from her own side of the aisle, and she flubbed it. She did ok vs. Pence because she had her prepped talking points, and she can clearly repeat the talking points.

Moving into the VP role, she was likewise likely isolated and not in charge of anything, really; staff does everything, and now it has to be dictated by the Biden staffers too.

With Trump, on this go-round, the usual media narrative building approach just isn’t sticking (or the people responsible for helping create it themselves screw something up, eg showing the teleprompter, Maria Shriver admitting the questions are predetermined). I am sure that as part of her desire to be in control, she has been prepped within an inch of her life; the problem is that she knows as part of that preparation that her natural jumping point (we don’t need the Jesus-lovers at this rally) forces her to run from her comfort zone on policy. So it isn’t surprising that when she has to step up she babbles and loses it.

When her achievements were handed to her on a silver platter, she projected strength. But when she began facing real opposition and scrutiny in 2020, her psychological weakness and inability to skillfully lie were exposed.

There’s an interesting story here. I hope to read a good account of it someday. Ray+Van+Dune may be right about impostor’s syndrome and fear.

Harris seems to be caught in some sort of Double Bind, Gregory Bateson’s psychological theory from the 60s/70s to explain schizophrenia, in which a person must satisfy contradictory social demands, is unable to do so, and therefore responds with confusion, distress or dysfunction.

Including word salad.

Word salad was not coined for Kamala Harris. It was originally a term to describe the disordered speech patterns of schizophrenics.

Or worse, wins?