A roadmap for the campaign is coming into view.

• Harris has her knee on Trump's neck, and she won't let up.
• There won't be time for anyone to get tired of her.
• The campaign rallies should get bigger and bigger, and more rambunctuous.
• Trump was a comedian, a cross between Don Rickles and Joan Rivers. He had a good schtick for a long run if you find fascist slapstick entertaining.
• The threats of Project 2025 previously looked ominous. Last night Maddow tried to get us all excited about how the Repubs have planted people on voting boards in swing states with the purpose of stopping the counts, and thus preventing a vote in the Electoral College. But they're doing it too late. They will feel the tide turning too. Their kids are in the popular culture of 2024, and that's where this campaign will take place.
• The Repub voters that elected Trump were appealed to based on their resentment in being left behind (not that all of them were, he just convinced them they were). But that was eight years ago and a lot has happened. Harris saying basically "there you go again" is an echo of Reagan, btw. It worked for Reagan, you just have to get the derision right. And Harris can do that, and we laugh, because we want to say it too.
• This change couldn't come at a better more opportune time, it happened almost as if the whole thing was staged. The Harris campaign was all set to hit the ground running, it feels like a lot of advance work. Or they picked bloggers who were up and running and gave them the keys and said go. Either approach is fine, breaking through where previous Demo campaigns didn't have the nerve. Whatever it is, there's a sign of competence and urgency in the Democrats that, unlike it was with Obama, is grounded in the challenge not in some almost religious sense that he's The One, which was understandable, we all were walking around in a stupor not believing such a thing could have happened.
• Now we're grounded. We've seen the outline of our future. A few weeks ago the lead Republican thinker said in an interview, it was up to the liberals to avoid a bloodbath, as they took over. You don't hear that anymore. Those people must now we thinking more seriously about jail time for what they did. And the Supreme Court will go to jail too if they try to support what Maddow was talking about. We must not let them overthrow the government.
• FDR threatened to pack the court and the court backed down in 1938.
• I had my doubts whether Biden would stop it, and I don't know if Harris will, but given how purposefully the campaign in running, I suspect (hope, pray) she will. Our job is to give her the support she needs to feel like we've got her back.
• BTW, if you haven't listened to Sunday's podcast, please do. A lot of what you read here will assume that you have listened to it. It's just 12 minutes.