Actor Russell Brand said on Sunday that the Democratic Party is riddled with “duplicity and construction beneath it” after selecting a new candidate after President Biden announced he was stepping down from the ticket.
“Kamala Harris for President? Are we all about to be ‘burdened by what might be,’’ Brand wrote in a post on X uploaded alongside a video of him speaking out after Biden posted his announcement on the platform yesterday. Biden endorsed Vice President Harris shortly after posting his announcement.
“I’m increasingly open to the idea that this is some extraordinary masquerade. And as with all masquerades, you have to be open to the possibility that there’s an element of duplicity and construction beneath. There’s going to be a wild ride between now and November for all of us,” Brand added.
A top European official was caught on a hot mic earlier this year blasting Kamala Harris as “invisible” and arguing that the vice president “would never win an election.”
Isabel Schnabel, an executive board member of the European Central Bank, provided her damning assessment of President Biden’s potential replacement in February, during a private conversation prior to an event, Politico reported on Monday.
“They should have built up another candidate to Kamala Harris from the beginning,” Schnabel said in private remarks, unaware that she was on a live-stream with audio.
“She would never win an election, I mean that’s hopeless,” the European banking official said of Harris.
“I don’t even know her because she has been so invisible,” Schnabel added.
America’s liberal elites are sighing with accomplished relief at the departure of Joe Biden. The increasingly scathing calls for the President to give up his re-election bid have ended in a ruthless victory. Now, in the ash of his political implosion, hubris builds. After a brief, pitying pause to take in the full operatic scale of Biden’s agonies, momentum is building behind a Kamala Harris coronation, the “young” and “transcendent” leader with the “X-factor” to stop Donald Trump in his tracks.
The vice-president may be no Obamaesque prodigy in metropolitan eyes. Still, the story arc in which she puts her “rocky” stint as VP behind her and prevails in becoming America’s first black female president is gaining shape.
They couldn’t be more wrong, of course. Far from being on the cusp of a titanic victory, the Democratic movement is tanking. The elephant in the room, overlooked by the new generation of the Left – which long ago gave up on Marxist history in favour of intersectionalist indy bookshop pulp – is that Biden was their Leonid Brezhnev. As with the Soviet leader, the President’s fall is unlikely to be followed by a glorious revival. Instead, the Democrats’ internal contradictions are set to become too glaring to ignore.