With some hard work, pluck and a bit of genetic luck, Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential ballot without having to secure a single primary vote.
Don’t tell me the American Dream is dead.
Sure, Harris is a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable platitudes.
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What you may not recall is that the media tried to gaslight us into believing the California senator was another apolitical dealmaker.
Former Clinton fixer George Stephanopoulos said Harris was “the middle-of-the-road, moderate wing of the Democratic Party.”
The New York Times called her a “pragmatic moderate,” while the Associated Press focused on her “centrist record.”
And so on.
A “small c conservative,” one Washington Post columnist wrote.
The only problem was, according to GovTrack, Harris’ record in the Senate was to the left of red-diaper baby Bernie Sanders.
She was least likely of any senator to join in any bipartisan bills.
Harris wasn’t handed a Senate seat by the California political hierarchy to waste her time legislating with a bunch of pinheads. She was there to run for the presidency.
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This false perception of moderation stems from Harris’ time as prosecutor and AG.
Harris liked to brag about using “a huge stick” as a prosecutor in San Francisco, where she regularly threatened poor parents with jail time in her efforts to craft social policy — which wasn’t her job.
It’s true that Harris threw a lot of people in jail to bolster her political fortunes. Some of them likely innocent.
And judging from her disposition, she would throw a lot of more people into jail, if she could.
When pro-life journalist David Daleiden published videos of Planned Parenthood executives nonchalantly discussing the selling of body parts, Harris had his home raided, seized evidence and then tried to throw him in prison.
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One of the reasons Kamala allegedly opposed the nomination of Neil Gorsuch was that the judge “consistently valued legalisms” — which is to say, respected the Constitution — “over real lives.”
Kamala was never one for legalism.
When candidate Biden argued that Harris’ promise to issue an executive order unilaterally banning access to certain guns would be unconstitutional, she retorted: “I would just say: Hey, Joe, instead of saying ‘No we can’t,’ let’s say yes, we can,’” before cackling at the very notion that presidents couldn’t do whatever they wanted.
As a national candidate, Kamala said she believed immigration laws should be treated as civil, rather than criminal, offenses.
She supported abolishing private health insurance — “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on,” she told CNN.
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Harris was in favor of getting rid of the filibuster to overturn state voting laws, nationalizing abortion on demand until birth and passing the Green New Deal — an authoritarian takeover of the economy written by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which would ban all fossil fuels, force Americans to retrofit every building in in the country, eliminate air travel and meat and create government-guaranteed jobs, among many other authoritarian measures.
On foreign policy, we don’t really know, though we can guess.
This week, Harris wouldn’t even attend when Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, delivered a speech to Congress.
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In the past she has openly protested with Islamic Republic propagandists from the National Iranian American Council. To be fair, in some ways her disposition comports more with the latter than the former.
When I say Harris is an authoritarian, I’m not contending she’s Hitler.
I am saying she is a fan of obedience to authority, especially of Democrat-run government, at the expense of personal freedom in ways that are deeply un-American.
That’s a bad trend in politics in general, but it’s difficult to think of many politicians more wedded to the idea than Kamala Harris.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at the Federalist. Twitter @davidharsanyi
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