The battle for the presidency has taken on mythic proportions. Trump, promising vengeance and retribution, is a modern Hydra, whose many heads spew increasingly venomous lies, about Haitians, women, Jews, and enemies of all races, creeds, and genders.
If the Democrats are to win, Harris and Tim Walz must find an alternative to combating the Hydra on the monster's terms. Neither of them has Trump's killer instincts, but they do have one thing on their side.
The fateful question is: Can Democrats mobilize the other in the service of their politics of 'joy'? In other words, for Democrats to overcome the politics of killing, they have to find a way to make their campaign exude, well, sex.
But I do mean that Walz has to tap into what Freud called the erotic, in the sense that Plato uses the word Eros: the human instinct to preserve and unite.
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