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Increasingly, little if anything remains real about the Harris campaign.
Take ideology and the issues.Read More
It is now well known that Kamala Harris was rated as the most left-wing of all current senators, including Bernie Sanders—according to GovTrack, a non-partisan compiler of evaluators in Congress. The Voteview project found her voting record the most liberal of all senators of the 21st century, except for radical Elizabeth Warren.
Harris as vice president in a 50/50 Senate has proven the decisive passing vote on more deadlocked bills than any other vice president in history—all thirty-three of them proudly progressive legislation. She has done more to ensure left-wing government at the national level than any prior vice president.
Indeed, Harris, as both a California state official and its senator, and as vice president, has for some thirty years championed almost every issue dear to the left—Medicare for all, an end to private health care plans, banning fracking, mandatory EV requirements, unrestricted abortion, wealth taxes, income and inheritance tax hikes, defense cuts, price controls, open borders, ending the border patrol, stopping all deportations, opposition to a border wall, mass amnesties, free transition surgeries for illegal aliens, and mandatory buyback of semi-automatic firearms.
In most of these cases, Harris not only voiced support but did so proudly and emphatically in front of hard-left constituencies. She has declared that she is a radical and woke.
During the 2020 Antifa and BLM riot after the death of George Floyd, Harris unabashedly helped to raise bail for arrested violent demonstrators in Minnesota. Indeed, she went on national television to warn the nation that the protests were a “movement” that would not and should not stop.
Given such a long record, Harris should have been proud of her politics, which had done so much, especially over the last four years, to change the very nature of the nation. Why, then, is she not campaigning on the allegedly superior record of the Biden administration, the innate advantages to voters of the progressive project, and the need to implement a further left-wing agenda? Rather than promising “change,” should she not be advocating “four more years of the same?”
Answer—Joe Biden has proven to be one of the most unpopular presidents in history. His approval ratings hover around 40 percent, and less on the very left-wing policies he and Harris implemented.
So, Harris is not proudly boasting of her past efforts to open wide the southern border, to support defunding the police, or to call for reparations. Instead, she has renounced most of her prior radical agendas and embraced their antitheses. In eerie examples of projection, whatever particular unpopular policy is most associated with Biden-Harris, she claims Trump, out of office since January 2021, was responsible for the fiasco.
Hyperinflation from 2022-2023? Trump did it. Twelve million illegal aliens swarming across the border in 2021-2024? Again, Trump is responsible. The most humiliating military defeat in a half-century? The Afghanistan disaster of August 2021 is Trump’s fault too.
Otherwise, Harris almost sounds like a Trump voter critiquing her own Biden-Harris disaster years. It gets stranger still when she vows to “turn the page” and “move forward”—as if suddenly to distance herself from the very record she and Joe Biden enacted.
In other words, Harris is asking Americas for a suspension of disbelief that what they have seen, heard—and suffered—the last four years was not really the fault of the government overseen by Biden-Harris in power but was due to Donald Trump out of power. Voters are beginning to suspect that come November 6, Harris will revert to her lifelong leftist agenda, regardless of whether Harris loses and continues as a lame-duck vice president or wins and assumes the presidency in 2025.
Central to Harris’s metamorphoses has also been her somewhat massaged biography. She often omits that she is the daughter of two PhDs, a Stanford professor, and a cancer researcher at UC Berkeley. Harris never really lived long in Oakland as claimed but grew up in upper-middle-class neighborhoods in university towns like Berkeley, Palo Alto, and an elite district of Montreal.
Harris, in the past manner of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, does not limit her fluidity to her bio but extends her makeover to the trivial, such as altering cadences and accents in efforts to sound somewhat more authentic to particular black, Caribbean, or Hispanic audiences.
For the first time in her life, Harris also seeks to cement her supposedly conservative middle-class bona fides by reinventing her past and present tastes and experiences. She claims she once worked at McDonald’s, but oddly cannot cite which franchise she worked at and when.
Harris insisted she owns a Glock handgun without specifying when and where she purchased it, to whom it is registered, or which model. Much less does she remind listeners that, as California Attorney General, she made it nearly impossible to purchase many Glock models. The once noted wine connoisseur now populist Harris now, of course, drinks beer on television.
During the recent slippage in Harris support, the campaign has issued a number of near-comical “working-class” commercials. Their aim is to regain support from blue-collar males, especially poor white men without college degrees. But such ads aimed at these constituencies are laughable, with actors caricaturing how elites imagine working males talk and look like when voicing support for Harris.
At times, Harris oddly thinks the best way to win back the male vote is to ridicule it. In a style reminiscent of Hilary Clinton’s disastrous lambasting of Trump supporters as “deplorables,” Barack Obama recently ventured out on her campaign trail to lecture supposedly naïve young black men not to be misled, fooled, or suffer from false consciousness into voting for a supposedly racist Trump rather than a progressive black female Kamala Harris.
Yet Obama, like Harris, is apparently completely unaware that wealthy coastal elites (the Obamas own three mansions in Hawaii, Washington, DC, and Martha’s Vineyard) convince few when they begin lecturing supposedly clueless working-class men, both black and white, on why they are being fooled into voting for Donald Trump.
Central to the Harris makeover is also a systemic effort to “redefine” masculinity and thereby convince males that “real” men support Harris’s own mostly progressive agendas.
Just as Harris leads women by over ten points, so too Trump has nearly the same edge with male voters. Unfortunately for Harris, her out-of-touch left-wing handlers apparently believe Harris’s inability to win over men is due to “misogyny,” or male insecurities and fears of voting for a proud black woman.
Thus, the ads, like those directed to the middle class, show ridiculously caricatured “he-men” claiming masculinity is really defined as support for unchecked abortion or other progressive agendas.
Yet Harris seems clueless that her inability to win over men is often because, as the frequent main providers for their families, they have been increasingly unable to do just that. Soaring price hikes in gas, food, rent, power, and insurance—as well as perceptions of anemic responses to national security threats abroad and an inability to crack down on lawlessness at home—are what really alienates men.
And even here, the appeal to a softer, gentler masculinity appears to many manufactured and plastic. The Harris campaign points to Harris’s own husband, Los Angeles celebrity and entertainment lawyer, Douglas Emhoff, and running mate Tim Walz as models of the new, improved male, one who becomes more a real man the more sensitive he is to feminist issues, as defined by the left. Again, it seems a strange way to win over male voters.
Stranger still, Emhoff reportedly broke up his first marriage by impregnating his children’s nanny while arranging to hide both his adultery and the consequences of the pregnancy.
He also, allegedly as reported by witnesses, slapped hard a former girlfriend, leading to the end of their relationship. And most recently, allegations have arisen that he was considered unusually chauvinistic and insensitive to women at his law firm.
Walz similarly is held up to men as a man’s ideal liberal and thus a true masculine male. Yet, most male voters remain unconvinced here too—perhaps because Walz has systematically misled voters about his past in a way that hardly seems manly. Walz falsely claimed that he held a higher military rank, fought in a combat zone, misrepresented an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, used in vitro fertilization for the birth of his child, was at Tiananmen Square during the historic 1989 demonstrations, and visited China either “30” or “dozens” or merely “closer to 15” times.
The problem with all these canned, unauthentic commercials, altered biographies, complete political flip-flops, staged encounters, serial lies, and campaigning as a pseudo-change candidate against one’s own record and self is that it is hard to keep all the contradictions, hypocrisies, fables, and mythologies straight.
No wonder that the chief criticism of Harris is that she offers word salads and endless sappy circumlocutions instead of specific answers to questions or laying out detailed political agendas.
But in her defense, how can either she—or for that matter, Walz—do that when they do not know who they really are, much less what they did in the past and will do in the future?
Annie45 says
I’ve heard Victor Davis Hanson speak many times. He describes things,
explains things and takes an idea and puts it with another idea – so
that one winds up understanding and learning something. There are
a lot of men and women like that who are obviously intelligent. The
columnists at FPM are like that.
But Kamala Harris is not like that. She comes across as a real airhead.
Yet she must have some intellectual ability. Her parents were highly
educated as is she herself – managing in her career to rise to exceptionally
high positions of power. She must be what they called years ago “a
company girl” – someone without personal integrity who is slavishly
devoted to the party to get ahead, no matter what it stands for. An apt
description of corruptocrat Big Guy Biden as well.
VDH says all her myths and obfuscations related to who she really is
entangle her in dumb-sounding word salads – not to mention she avoids
being challenged on her abysmal record of destroying America. So the
cackling hyena tends to come across as a bit stupid. But she sounds that
way because she is cagey and corrupt to the core like a rotting apple.
She is a plant, installed in the running for President of the United States
without a single primary vote whether We The People like it or not.
Installed by the behind-the-scenes globalist communists – whoever they
are – really running the country. The vote Nov. 5th is between them versus
Donald Trump and the American people. Kamala Harris is just another one
of their puppets and they’ll pull her strings any way they want her to go.
Something they can’t do to President Trump. Nor at this point to We The
People – if we turn out in person enmasse to back him up.
Mo de Profit says
The UN and its million NGO’s vs Donald Trump
Robert Hagedorn says
Tucker Carlson has described her intelligence as feral.
Spurwing Plover says
Unicorns Rainbows and Harris.Frankly Elvis and Bigfoot riding the Lochness Monster is more beleivable this Biden and Harris
David Ray says
During the interview, the seething bitch lied about Jan 6th saying “Trump sent an armed mob and they attacked police officers!”
No.
They weren’t armed, yet they were attacked by police officers.
They were lured into the ellipsis, replete with FBI plants, AntiFa, BLM, and DC cops dressed up as MAGA (many caught on video).
Then the static crowd was fired upon for half an hour until Ray Epps was finally able to talk one into breaching a flimsy barricade.
The set-up was similar to Hitler’s staged Reichstag Fire except no German civilians were killed in that. The Jan6th set-up killed three good people that day – including Kevin Greeson; hit in the eye by a projectile.
Now long before Jan 6th, there were multiple riots, all initiated by BLM & AntiFa where cops were continually hit by bricks, run over, and one retired officer shot & killed.
Kamala not only funded the MFF bail-out to further more riots, she praised the rioters openly “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop, and everyone beware . . .”
Also, the lying bitch KNOWS that Jan 6th was a set-up. That’s why she’s mum about the fake bomb at the DNC headquarters where she was perilously close.
Except her life wasn’t ever in peril.
That’s why she & the entire DNC desperately want the story to disappear. That’s why no real effort was ever made to find the “bomber”.
Mo de Profit says
They are doing it for all the right reasons and for the greater good because Trump has proven to be a dictator when he increased the freedom of America, encouraged LEGAL immigration, encouraged American jobs not Chinese ones and negotiated peaceful Middle East accords.
Intrepid says
“Increasingly, little if anything remains real about the Harris campaign.”
Actually, little if anything was ever real about the Harris campaign. Or any of her campaigns.
Did she ever get any votes at all…..ever?
Justin Swingle says
there was never, ever anything ‘REAL’ about Kamala Harris. She is a sociopath gamer lawyer. She stages herself as a ‘populist’ and then goes off and blows billionaries. Ask Dem party godfather GEORGE SOROS how meat puppets are groomed.
And standby to watch gamer parasite lawyer DOUG EMHOOF clean up, just as the BIDEN BOYS have done!
Chris Shugart says
VDH provides an accurate and comprehensive description of the Harris-Walz campaign. They’re like a two-bit magic act performing in some low dive Vegas Casino, with nothing to offer except cheap booze and fancy ways to lose your money.
PatriotLiz says
This all stems from the root ideology of Marxist totalitarianism of Fascism/Communism and the puppet political masters of Obama and Soros. Now, the problem is how to cover up the true nature of their diabolical plans for America and the idiocy of Kamala-Walz puppets? Biden could no longer play the charade so Kamala had to step in to give the performance of her life.
The movie “Wag the Dog.” comes to mind with a merging of Hollywood + Commies+ MSM to present the mythological portrayal of Kamala to pass her off as someone who could be POTUS to fool the masses.
As long as nobody says the word “Communist” out loud, the Democrat FascistCommies can get away with façade.
But the Democrats have already said “Fascist” out loud to label their political opponent because that’s what the Communists do. It’s their knee jerk reaction left over from when the Socialistic totalitarians were rivals in WWII. But the Democrat Commies subsequently immunized themselves by ridiculing anyone calling them Communists with the counter-punch of “McCarthyism” which is why Communist ideology has been able to flourish in America. We just can’t continue to ignore the Communism all around us seeping from the stinking pile of dung heap of today’s Democrat Party when it’s so obvious…seriously, OPEN BORDERS? and millions of illegals, i.e., future Democrat voters, being put on welfare, (Progressive Socialism)?
I remember the good ol’ days when it used to be Democrats vs Republicans or Liberals vs Conservatives—those days are gone.
Kasandra says
I think they do know who they are and what they’ll do in office. They just won’t tell us because they know their plans would not be popular. Remember, both (like most Democrat politicos) are pathological liars.
Ron Kelmell says
As scribed previously, the Harris platform is a list of cliche’, platitude, and nonsense metaphor any of which can be interpreted however the hearer might like. She sounds like a bossy woman trying to hide her agenda from the victims of her non speak speeches.
Or does she believe the wordiness is are solutions to problems for which she has no comprehension?