# How will the Republicans demonize Kamala Harris? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 23, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698 "2024-07-23T17:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/41 "2024-07-23T20:06:40Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > This leads into what I was planning to post, namely that there will be a two pronged attack against her. Yeah, this. The main attack will be that she’s a godless communist lefty\* who lacks the intelligence to do her job and will, through an unholy blend of malice and incompetence, turn the USA into the vaunted Socialist Paradise. To black male voters, by contrast, she will be painted as a right-wing cop who thinks of nothing except jailing them. To all, of course: Unfeminine!!!11! Didn’t give birth so ‘no skin in the game’!1!!! Covered up Joe’s debilities and ALSO shafted a perfectly-competent President for her own evil ambitions!!!1!! \* Not one of the _good_ ones like our darling Vlad, of course. /rightwinger ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/42 "2024-07-23T20:07:57Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is ‘she’s not really black’, a thing they’re attacking her for? She’s ‘not really black’ as well as 'too black" _at the same time_. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/43 "2024-07-23T20:13:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Republicans aren’t much into subtlety any more, so I expect the reasons given to oppose her will be openly direct and to the point: She is a Black Woman. The phrase used will be “DEI” … seriously a drinking game with that phrase will lead to cirrhosis. I hope the get ahead and early on call out that every time you hear that it know that is the kneejerk response to person of color or a woman, let alone both, in power. It scares them. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/44 "2024-07-23T20:13:30Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I hope that the undecided demographic is turned off by this kind of rage bait. I am not sure how it will all work out. Rage, racism and sexism are pretty much all they have at this point. Expect it to get worse. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/45 "2024-07-23T20:15:22Z")
There’s a binder on some shelf at the RNC headquarters containing all the ‘dirt’ or plans on how to attack various democratic luminaries. They’ll pull it out, and try as best they can to follow the script, but as already noted there really isn’t adequate time to develop anything very sophisticated with like 100 days to the general election. They had years to try to make America hate Joe Biden, I just don’t think there’s enough time to make America hate Kamala Harris more than Trump in the few weeks remaining before the election. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/46 "2024-07-23T20:16:09Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > The phrase used will be “DEI” … seriously a drinking game with that phrase will lead to cirrhosis. Yes – Republicans have redefined “DEI” as “all the ways society is stacked against straight white males.” You’re going to hear that term a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/47 "2024-07-23T20:17:06Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Yes – Republicans have redefined “DEI” as “all the ways society is stacked against straight white males.” You’re going to hear that term a lot. See also: Woke ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/48 "2024-07-23T20:17:14Z")
I imagine it will get worse very shortly but I will not be tuning in anytime soon. My ears had enough for a lifetime. I’ll listen to those who can summarize for me. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/49 "2024-07-23T20:18:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > Well, she _could_ see Russia from her back porch. > > This is a fake quote, what she really said is that one could see Russia from Alaska- which on a good clear day- it true. No - it’s real! At [1:25 of this press conference, she says just that](https://youtu.be/vSOLz1YBFG0)… (it’s an SNL clip) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/50 "2024-07-23T20:23:46Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yeah, this. The main attack will be that she’s a godless communist lefty (Highlight mine.) I note that she is a Baptist, and apparently actually attends church. > **[How Vice President Kamala Harris’ Religion Has Impacted Her Life Over The Years](https://www.biography.com/political-figures/a61666585/kamala-harris-religion)** > > She and husband Douglas Emhoff are in an interfaith relationship. Found this when rebutting people who were claiming “There is no Christian reason to support Kamala Harris.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/51 "2024-07-23T20:26:15Z")
Someone needs to make it a meme and a campaign slogan that the opposite of DEI is Uniformity, Inequity, and Exclusion, then run ads and more memes branching off from that. “The GOP condemns DEI, they clearly want lily-white all-male workplaces!” “Do you want _your_ employer to require everyone be uniform with … them?” and show the most stereotypical MAGA Evangelical. Or a group of Handmaids. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/52 "2024-07-23T20:29:24Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Found this when rebutting people who were claiming “There is no Christian reason to support Kamala Harris.” If these are the same people who think there IS a “Christian reason” to support Donald Trump, then I don’t think I can find a way to respect their powers of reason (or common sense). ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/53 "2024-07-23T20:31:36Z")
I think the idea is that not only is she a DEI hire, but she is a fake DEI hire. She knows all of those wonderful perks and privileges that everyone knows comes with being a black woman and then lied to get them for herself. See also Elizabeth Warren aka “Fauxcahontas”. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/54 "2024-07-23T21:07:02Z")
Well, as of today some dipshit backbench Rep has filed articles of impeachment for being a bad border czar something something. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/55 "2024-07-23T21:07:58Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > So the smart thing would be to ignore her gender and race and concentrate purely on the San Francisco aspect. She’s a San Francisco radical! She turned San Francisco into a third world city don’t let her do that to America! @griffin1977 wins one Internet! From a Trump interview today: > The former president added: “What you should do is take a look at San Francisco now compared to before she became the district attorney, and you’ll see what you’ll do to our country. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/56 "2024-07-23T21:10:08Z")
So, the consensus seems to be “Racism and Sexism”, with a side of “Pretend Democrats ‘walking away’”. All strategies that have failed in the recent past. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/57 "2024-07-23T21:17:46Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Someone needs to make it a meme and a campaign slogan that the opposite of DEI is Uniformity, Inequity, and Exclusion, then run ads and more memes branching off from that. “The GOP condemns DEI, they clearly want lily-white all-male workplaces!” “Do you want _your_ employer to require everyone be uniform with … them?” and show the most stereotypical MAGA Evangelical. Or a group of Handmaids. A bunch of white men wearing white dress shirts and black pants and ties. Preferably with bad combovers. Because nobody, left or right, wants to be those guys. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/58 "2024-07-23T21:26:31Z")
You don’t even need to fake it, though. Most photos of groups of Republican officials are 99% mediocre white guys. Just rebrand every one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/59 "2024-07-23T21:40:11Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The most common one I’m seeing on Twitter is just a bunch of black people saying they won’t vote for her. How many fingers did they have on each hand? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/60 "2024-07-23T21:44:33Z")
This is crass but every Conservative in my Facebook and Twitter feeds are making Blow Job allusions with regard to VP Harris. It seems more specific than their run of the mill misogyny so I assume there is some “Blew her way to the top” story going through their media because they literally are all making the same comments. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=4)