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The attacks on Harris from the right have been very brazen in their #misogyny and #racism.

For example, the New York Post published a column earlier this month saying Harris would be the country’s first “DEI president”,
referring to diversity, equity and inclusion.
This is a way of dismissing anybody who’s🔸 not white and not a man 🔸as not being worthy of the position they’ve earned.
Trump rose to national prominence prosecuting the same kind of racist campaign against the presidency of Barack Obama.
I think we can expect there to be a push for the Trump campaign not to go down that road any further.
But we’ve seen in the past how Trump completely ignores that kind of conventional wisdom, and just how much that incites his base.
This remains a dangerous and unpredictable era in American politics. There are no rules for what happens next.
-- Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University

https://www.rawstory.com/why-this-risky-unprecedented-move-could-be-the-circuit-breaker-the-democrats-needed/