Angelina Jolie is smart, tough, and, of course, glamorous. She’s also a political figure of sorts. Today’s thought experiment is, what would happen if she ran for president?
Fox News and the right-wing trolls on the internet would go nuts, just the way they have with AOC, only to the nth power. Angelina has lived with that for entire career, however, so it probably wouldn’t trouble her too much. The real question is, how would American men in general respond to her candidacy?
We can’t know, of course, but my best guess is that they would be supportive for the most part. It’s the middle-aged women who remind them of noisy, bossy Aunt Bea that they can’t stand.
Replace “Angelina” with “Kamala Harris” and you have a real life scenario, only in lower case. It’s a dynamic we’ve never seen in a national election. I have to admit, it intrigues me.