Kamala Harris’s campaign has embraced what is surely the most hallowed of American traditions, a tradition saturated in modernity: freedom. Yet her discourse on the stump tends to follow traditional forms: evidence-based, logical, and reasonable. Anything but freewheeling.

But then there’s her laugh. There’s nothing politically traditional in her easy, free-flowing laugh. Politicians base their authority on being sobersided. Trump does not laugh, unless at the expense of his opponents. For the Trump campaign, Kamala’s laugh is one of her liabilities, proof that she’s weird. Compilations of her guffawing circulated online.