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Cancel Culture Comes for Buttigieg
The left’s circular firing squad takes aim at Mayor Pete. Game over?
First, Who Cancelled Sen. Kamala Harris?
Before we talk about Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the left should really be looking more closely at the recent demise of the Harris campaign.
What started out as a promising campaign, enjoying a steady rise in support on the heels of the Senator’s strong debate performances, crashed and burned last week.
Kamala Harris’s supporters, and her many detractors, have had a great deal to say since Harris formally ended her campaign.
It’s the billionaires, some said, in a likely reference to billionaire Tom Steyer and the more recent entrance of billionaire and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Harris campaign did in fact specifically blame lack of funding and the difficultly they had in keeping up with self-financing candidates like Bloomberg.
But no, argued others, Kamala Harris couldn’t win the Democratic nomination because of racism. They point to the current four Democratic frontrunner- all white- as proof.
No, argue others on the left, Kamala’s campaign was sunk from the beginning because of sexism. It is so much more difficult for a women, and most especially a woman of color to get ahead in “Trump’s…