From doom scrolling to hope scrolling: this week’s big Democratic vibe shift
Jul 26, 2024
Almost overnight, the vice president has eclipsed the president. Videos and memes of Harris are everywhere.
“We’ve all gone from doom scrolling to hope scrolling,” said Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue – a group with about 500,000 members that organizes suburban women around reproductive freedom and pushing back on book bans, among other issues.
“That feels good. I know I shouldn’t be looking at TikTok before I go to bed at night anyway. But before it wasn’t very good for my mental health – and now I feel like I can kind of make an excuse for it,” she said. ”It’s like joy is back in town.”
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