"I love 'Karma,'" the senator from Massachusetts said last night during a Zoom event for a group called Swifties for Kamala. "And I have a thing or two to say about private equity!" The 34,000 attendees probably would have cheered, but, as is typical for such a massive webinar, only the organizers had control of the microphone and camera. Warren was undaunted by the lack of response. "It is going to be a tough fight ahead," she said, winding up. "There are only 24 hours in a day—or 144 ‘All Too Well’ 10-minute versions. But here’s the thing, just like you’ve done every time before, we will push this boulder up the hill."
The whole thing was, somehow, even cringier than I had anticipated— and, as the event showcased, identity-based calls to action have been all the rage in this season of Democratic politics, with events like White Dudes for Harris and Win With Black Women drawing tens of thousands of attendees.
It seems safe to assume that Warren did not write all of these quips herself. But she would not be the only speaker on the call whose staffers had squeezed an unconscionable number of jokes into last night’s remarks.
Although America's Swifties are not an ethnic or racial group, they are arguably a religious one. Last night's call was an attempt to harness their unflagging devotion to the pop star and put it to political use.
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