It’s the endorsement no one asked for: Kamala Harris just locked down the Juggalo vote.
Rapper Violent J, one half of the hip-hop duo “Insane Clown Posse,” endorsed Harris on an episode of the Daily Show earlier in October. “I want her to win because she’s a Democrat, and I love my mom,” the rapper told host Troy Iwata. (RELATED: Kamala Harris’s Latest Celebrity Endorsement Resembles An Al-Qaeda Hostage Video)
I can spend all day making fun of the ICP: their obsession with clown make-up, their awful music, their trailer park aesthetic and the cultish followers, endearingly known as Juggalos, who emulate them. But all of this pales in comparison to Violent J’s politics. “Now I remember why I hated Trump – that wall shit,” he said when discussing immigration reform. He sounded off on feminism (women “have the right to be the fucking shit!”) and environmentalism (“We think we’re the superior fucking animal on this planet”) as well. Is this the anti-establishment anarchist from Detroit that Juggalos know and love, or a single cat lady at book club in Ann Arbor? (Click here to watch ‘Cleaning Up Kamala)
Dems love to cast upstanding, middle class Americans as “deplorable” hicks when they stray from progressive orthodoxy. So what does it say about Harris when the undeniable king of trailer trash comes out to endorse her? Something tells me Dems won’t find pro-Harris Juggalos quite as offensively garish as they find the typical MAGA populist.
But the Daily Show makes a solid point: The election will be decided by a handful of “politically disengaged voters” in a few key states. Several thousand first-time Juggalo voters could easily sway Michigan. Let’s hope they have better sense than their leader.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
