A little side note on Vance’s statement that Harris has collected government checks for 20 years. This was clearly a backdoor attempt to inject Reaganesque Welfare Queen imagery without owning up to it. But I also note that Vance (or his staff who wrote the line) have to know that Harris has actually been getting checks as a government employee for 34 years — since becoming a prosecutor straight out of law school in 1990. I wonder if he was subtly trying to minimize the wide gap between his amount of experience and hers by cutting 14 years off her career. After all, she had already been elected attorney general of the largest state when he was still in law school.
Yeah, I agree. I didn't put it in the substack, but it's clearly a "welfare queen" dog whistle. But your point about the years of experience--super insightful! Thanks for raising this. And I, like you, wonder why he minimized!
A little side note on Vance’s statement that Harris has collected government checks for 20 years. This was clearly a backdoor attempt to inject Reaganesque Welfare Queen imagery without owning up to it. But I also note that Vance (or his staff who wrote the line) have to know that Harris has actually been getting checks as a government employee for 34 years — since becoming a prosecutor straight out of law school in 1990. I wonder if he was subtly trying to minimize the wide gap between his amount of experience and hers by cutting 14 years off her career. After all, she had already been elected attorney general of the largest state when he was still in law school.
Yeah, I agree. I didn't put it in the substack, but it's clearly a "welfare queen" dog whistle. But your point about the years of experience--super insightful! Thanks for raising this. And I, like you, wonder why he minimized!