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Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in NYC Mayor's Race, But Top Democrats Still Won't Back Him
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It happened a lot when Biden was the nominee, and again for Harris too. It's probably not the kind of thing you'd hear from regular people though—most political sayings aren't, because real people in real life touching grass together tend to be more normal than that. It's more common on social media and the like, and can probably be traced back to political campaigns, honestly. Still important to push back against, because even if people don't say it, that doesn't mean they won't believe it.
What do you mean by "it happened", if it wasn't the kind of thing you would hear from people? What you said about not really hearing it was kind of my point.
I mean I am sure there was some tone-deaf shit coming out of the DNC which included it at one point and introduced it to the lexicon, boomer consultants really love the shit out of little smarmy rhymes like that. I'm just saying that if I look at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kamala+harris+vote+blue+no+matter+who&ia=web for example, I see the top results being:
And so on. It sounds from that totally scientific survey that most of the visible usage is not by people who are saying it, but by other people who disagree with the idea, who are introducing the smarmy phrasing as a way of characterizing people who are planning to vote for a Democrat.
Like I said, social media. "It happened" in the kind of environment where people tend to get kinda deranged about politics.
For sure, most references to the phrase these days will get you leftists complaining about it, justifiably and otherwise. I checked and got the same results. But it was still a thing. I can't tell you how much because I don't have the time or energy to investigate that, but it wasn't just leftists being sarcastic. It was real.