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What Kamala Harris’ Coronation Says About the Democratic Party

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In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman altogether flinch at the newfound media fawning over Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascendancy to the top of the Democratic party’s presidential ticket.

01:35—Cringe media honeymoon phase with Kamala Harris

21:23—GOP buyer’s remorse with J.D. Vance

39:14—Weekly Listener Question

47:58—President Joe Biden proposes SCOTUS reforms

51:46—This week’s cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

Kamala’s Fabricated Gen Z Appeal,” by Liz Wolfe

Media Coverage of ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris Is Cringe,” by Robby Soave

America Deserves a Boring Vice President,” by Bekah Congdon

‘Karens for Kamala?’ Inside the White Women Zoom Call for Harris,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

The Border Czar Illusion,” by Liz Wolfe

Even After the Harris-Biden Substitution, the Presidential Race Still Sucks,” by J.D. Tuccille

It’s Been Easy To Forget How Bad Kamala Harris Is,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

J.D. Vance Is a Bridge to Trumpism Beyond Trump,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

J.D. Vance, Taxing the Childless, and the Power of Framing,” by Ilya Somin

The ‘Pro-Worker’ GOP Is Anti-Worker,” by Veronique de Rugy

Do Running Mates Matter? The Influence of Vice Presidential Candidates in Presidential Elections,” by Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko

Evaluating the impact of vice presidential selection on voter choice,” by John Wihbey

With Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel Has Lost the Plot,” by Peter Suderman

The Bad News Bears Gets More Disturbing—and Awesome—Every Year,” by Matt Welch

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Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.

Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve

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