In the 2020 elections You could argue that kamala was the weakest candidate out of the whole crop Not even in a leftist way like there were better liberals and centrists I think she did worse than bernie Amy Warren and even shit faced butegig While Biden provided a legacy candidate the top brass liked Bernie and Warren were exciting for the youth Amy was the centrist candidate Even Pete had more popularity
Kamala provided nothing The only reason she was picked for vp was that she was that she provided so many identity cards (black/Asian/female) it filled in the gap of electing an old white man as president
But now in a clear case of astro turfing meme culture is trying to rehabilitate her Even tho she is still the nobody who climbed the ladder who go their by mass incarceration of black people
The token vice president who stood by like a good dog while Biden failed to codeify roe v wad or deliver on campaign promises
In alot of ways she is the face of the Democrat party, a craven sycophant who betrayed her people to climb politics.
r/neoliberal was saying shit like "any dem could beat trump in a landslide besides biden or kamala" like last week. Even in that incredibly liberal space, almost nobody there was interested in her being the candidate, they were split between riding with biden and pulling in someone more compelling than kamala. Looking at the top replies to the r/politics megathread in the aftermath of Biden dropping out and endorsing kamala is similar, mostly people saying "Anyone but biden or trump is fine, I'll vote for kamala if it's her" but nobody saying "fuck yeah it's Kamala time!" or anything remotely resembling "liking her"
So I don't see it as hatred and vitriol so much as just rightful condemnation, and acknowledging that even people who aren't left wing radicals also don't find her remotely inspiring. Her record speaks for itself, she sucks.