Despite what the NY Times claims: Joy actually is a strategy—a winning one at that!
'The NY Times—being the NY Times—on Friday published an op-ed about Vice President Harris with the title, “Joy is not a Strategy.” This article was penned by their Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy who shared how he “cringed a little in the convention hall Tuesday night when Bill Clinton said Kamala Harris would be “the president of joy.” He then criticized Harris for not laying out policy details...'#politics https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/despite-what-the-ny-times-claims
@Fellixe hate has been a strategy for the other side.
i think joy is a wonderful counter to that dumpster fire.
also, nyt is a cunt.
@singlemaltgirl I think the NYT, like Dumpy, is flailing for a strategy. They've trained for decades in the formula: take a candidate's policy positions, critique those positions, show both sides as flawed, pay opinion writers to propose fixes to those flaws. Dumpy broke the mold but they never changed tactics, they just beat on the Democrats exclusively. We had to change.
The media is broken. The fix to that was never going to be 'act like it isn't until it gets better.'