Bring it on

So now we know the identity of Biden's running mate and, very likely, our country's 47th president.  Electoral-Vote has a good overview of the choice, which won widespread acclaim from anti-Trump forces across the spectrum.  So far I've seen surprisingly little caviling from the usual ideological purists, despite occasional grumbling in the past that Harris's history as an attorney general was "problematic".  No doubt the Russian/Republican trolls will provide them their talking points soon enough; it remains to be seen how many will take the bait.

Our explicit enemies, of course, have shown no such restraint, wasting no time in denouncing Harris as an abortion-backer, an enemy of religion, and an ultra-leftist.  There have also been some less-adult responses, and I've seen occasional comments that Harris is "not a natural-born citizen" (???) and "slept her way to the top" (an apparent reference to her earlier relationship with Willie Brown).

But we always knew that no matter whom Biden chose, the enemy's reaction would get very ugly very fast, with rank-and-file wingnuts quickly sinking into the ooze of the special misogynistic filth that the orange vulgarian they follow has legitimized for deployment against women specifically.  Bring it on.  After three and a half years of the Trump shit-show, we can endure three months of their rhetorical diarrhea if it helps drive even more women voters (and men with post-Neolithic values) out of their tent.  And Harris is a fighter.  She knows how to hit them hard without sinking to their level.

We'll see who has the last laugh in November.