Kamala Harris' Brat Summer Is Almost Over. What's Next?
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
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Summary
Team Trump was winning the internet until the Harris-Walz campaign took over. But Democrats can’t just keep calling Republicans “weird” and celebrating Brat Summer until election day. Today on the show, writer and critic Hunter Harris on how Kamala Harris is harnessing social media and what comes next in the run-up to November.
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Hunter Harris is @hunteryharris Write to us at [email protected]. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
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| 0:18.9 | This is Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Leah Fiker, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
| 0:26.9 | Today on the show, I'm talking to Hunter Harris about the internet culture surrounding election season this year. |
| 0:32.6 | Hunter is a writer and critic who writes a lot about pop culture and occasionally about politics. |
| 0:38.5 | She's also worked for Vulture at New York Magazine and as a screenwriter on HBO's Gossip Girl reboot. Now she hosts the |
| 0:44.2 | Wondery Podcast, Let Me Say This. And she has her own substack called Hung Up. Hunter, welcome to Wired |
| 0:50.8 | Politics Lab. Thank you for having me. Well, let's dive right in because I know that you have so much to say about how the internet has responded to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz's campaign over the last few weeks. What are you thinking? What are you seeing? |
| 1:05.5 | It's kind of funny, like the absolute rancid vibes of Joe Biden's campaign and, like, the tone and tenor |
| 1:14.1 | of the internet felt extremely dystopian. |
| 1:17.9 | It was sad. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, no, it was sad, but it was also like elder abuse. |
| 1:22.0 | Like, we can't keep trotting out this man and pretending that he is going to be president. |
| 1:26.5 | And now I think there's a big |
| 1:29.1 | sort of wave of goodwill and also like we can have fun again in a campaign season, which hasn't |
| 1:37.5 | felt that way since Obama. Yeah. And there's something funny to me about the way that Kamala Harris is maybe the most memeable politician ever, or at least in my memory. |
| 1:51.7 | She's so naturally funny, even like unintentionally. And it kind of thrills me. |
| 1:57.5 | And I think it's also this very specific, like, cultural moment of conversation. |
| 2:02.3 | The way that she is talking and the things that she's saying are funny, I don't know if I |
| 2:05.6 | would have found them funny 10 years ago, but I find them absolutely hilarious right now. |
| 2:09.7 | I don't know if I would have found them funny even 10 months ago. Like, there was a really, |
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