Sweet Emotion: How the Harris-Walz Ticket Wields Joy Against Donald Trump
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
To say that there has been a “vibe shift” among Democrats is an understatement. Since taking Joe Biden’s mantle as the presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris has ushered in an unmistakable wave of positivity within the party. The joy and optimism suffusing her campaign have thus proven powerful antidotes to the fear and anger being sold by Donald Trump. That is, according to MSNBC analyst Anand Giridharadas, who has been writing extensively about the political potency of emotions in his popular newsletter, The Ink. In the latest episode of the Inside the Hive, Giridharadas discusses why everyone is picking up such “good vibes” from Harris and running mate Tim Walz—and how the duo pulled Democrats out of their anti-Trump doom loop. “You have to compete with authoritarianism by doing some of the things it does: by commanding attention, by catering to feeling, by making people feel like they can see a future,” he says. “The Harris campaign has somehow tapped into that.”
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| 0:38.8 | How would you describe what's happened |
| 0:40.6 | to American politics in the past month? |
| 0:43.4 | I think there's been on two levels a vibe shift on the surface, an extraordinary explosion |
| 0:50.4 | of joy and excitement and energy and enthusiasm. |
| 0:55.0 | But I think the more interesting story may be what's underneath the vibe shift, |
| 0:59.0 | which I would call a changing of the guard. |
| 1:00.0 | There is a new class of people rising into influence in American politics who take |
| 1:05.9 | attention, emotion, feeling seriously. |
| 1:09.9 | And I think after being not listened to for a long time within campaigns and |
| 1:13.3 | within movements, they're on the rise. That's Anand Gerdardis. He's the author of |
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| 1:31.5 | This week we're going inside the vibe shift in American politics. |
| 1:34.6 | Because anyone who says that the vibes don't matter, that feelings are irrelevant, |
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