Axe did it again. Over the weekend, David Axelrod, whose punditry about Joe Biden’s age and political abilities has very much annoyed the White House these past four years, offered a reality check on the dancing-in-the-streets ecstasy that has consumed the Democratic Party since Kamala Harris became their nominee. The polling bump, the money, the volunteers, the memes, that white preppy kid in Atlanta vibing to “Not Like Us” at Harris’s rally last week: Axelrod pooh-poohed the vibes as borderline magical thinking.
“There is a lot of irrational exuberance on the Democratic side of the aisle right now because there was despair for some period of time about what November was going to look like. Now people feel like there is a chance,” Axelrod said on CNN, beaming in from a lake house in Michigan. “It’s a wide-open race, but Trump has the advantage right now and everybody should be sober about that on the Democratic side.”
