The democrats would have tripped over themselves crying about it and appealing to norms and civility and their usual gormless bullshit and Kamala would have eaten shit even harder.
And instead of shouting "read the room!" the DNC consultant and liberal pundit classes would have gone along for that ride because they are just as clueless as their bosses.
Reddit went from 24x7 Kamala pictures to zero in like a week. Kamalas popularity was entirely artificial.
It was similar to the astroturfing for trump in 2016 except more artificial and we could all tell
She paid like almost two billion for it, a day after all those billboards were gone.