Democrats want paradoxes to rule the election. They want to praise President Joe Biden as one of the best presidents the nation has seen, while Vice President Kamala Harris ditches nearly all of his strategies and policies. They want to make a sharp turn from Harris’s stunningly low approval ratings to an entire party standing behind her, specifically.

So far, it has worked. They have been able to sell these points with minimal dissonance, certainly none from the Left. But it was not just an early strategy employed to lift the Harris campaign off the ground: The Democratic Party pivots around such paradoxes.