The Far Right Is Already Demonizing Kamala Harris

Far-right communities online are already demonizing Vice President Kamala Harris aft speculation that she whitethorn regenerate President Joe Biden arsenic the Democratic nominee successful the US election.

But alternatively than focusing connected her policies, experience, oregon quality to bash the job, the vicious attacks person focused alternatively connected her enactment life, her race, and rethreading aged conspiracies astir her eligibility to beryllium president.

These attacks person been spurred connected by erstwhile President Donald Trump. “He conscionable quit, you know—he’s quitting the race,” Trump said of Biden, successful a video archetypal reported by the Daily Beast past week and subsequently posted by Trump to his Truth Social account. “That means we person Kamala,” Trump adds. “She’s truthful bad. She’s truthful pathetic. She’s truthful fucking bad.”

On July 4, Trump posted astir Harris connected Truth Social. “She did poorly successful the Democrat Nominating process, starting retired astatine Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, adjacent earlier getting to Iowa, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a ‘highly talented’ politician!” helium wrote. “Just inquire her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco.”

Trump’s comments referenced Harris’ narration with Brown, the erstwhile politician of San Francisco, successful the mid-1990s. Though right-wing critics person accused her of having an matter with Brown due to the fact that helium was joined astatine the time, a Reuters information cheque from 2020 outlines however Brown had been separated from his woman for a decennary earlier helium began dating Harris.

The White House pushed backmost against Trump’s attacks. “I deliberation it’s gross, I deliberation it’s disturbing,” Karine Jean-Pierre, White House property secretary, told reporters connected Friday. “She should beryllium respected successful the relation that she has arsenic vice president. She should beryllium respected similar immoderate different vice president earlier her who was successful that room. It is appalling that, I’m going to beryllium cautious here, that a erstwhile president is saying that astir a existent vice president. And we should telephone that out—it is not OK.”

But aft Trump’s comments, the erstwhile president's supporters and far-right figures rapidly began to onslaught Harris.

Harris has served successful elected bureau for decades arsenic a territory attorney, authorities lawyer general, senator, and vice president. Still, the immense bulk of the attacks were some racist and sexist, and made immoderate notation to her performing intersexual acts and insinuating that they had to bash with her success.

“Kamala is conscionable arsenic encephalon dormant arsenic Biden,” far-right troll Laura Loomer wrote connected X connected Wednesday. “She pretends to beryllium black, she has a documented past of giving blowjobs to Willie Brown to ascent the ladder, and she’s obsessed with sidesplitting babies.”

“Willi Brown's F--k artifact makes good,” 1 subordinate of the extremist connection committee The Donald wrote successful effect to a station astir her perchance replacing Biden arsenic the Democratic nominee.

Far-right posters besides suggested that her contention has played a large relation successful her success.

“This is wherefore DEI is peculiarly dangerous: idiots similar her are lifted up supra acold smarter radical truthful she starts to judge she’s the smartest 1 successful the room,” a subordinate of The Donald wrote past week.