So we’ve been through an entire debate, and Kamala Harris still hasn’t explained any of her extraordinary policy flip-flops.
I’m sorry, a person can’t just wake up one morning and abandon their entire worldview without an explanation. I mean, they can try, but no sensible person would take them seriously. Sure, politicians have been calibrating and triangulating their positions since Pericles. Most have been compelled to explain their ideological evolution — or have the decency to lie about it. None has ever relied on an army of anonymous campaign flacks to erase a lifetime of positions.
Well, not until Harris.
We all understand Democrats are desperate to shield voters from their candidate’s mind-numbing tautological rhetoric. Who can blame them, right? “Kamala Harris” is an empty vessel to be filled with the aspirations and dreams of gullible partisans. And allowing her to speak extemporaneously in public would kill all the joy, quicky.
These swirling platitudes and nervous laugh, however, don’t suggest that Harris isn’t bright. They suggest that she has no genuine philosophical or ethical belief system — other than, perhaps, obtaining and using power. Indeed, there’s little chance she will coherently expound on her sudden policy U-turns because they make zero ideological sense.
Let’s remember that Harris hasn’t merely been tinkering with the top marginal tax rate in her economic plan. She’s on the record championing, often quite passionately and definitively, a bunch of completely harebrained extremism.
“Will you fully endorse the Green New Deal tonight?” an Iowa voter asked Harris in 2019.
Yes, she answered. Fully.
“I support a Green New Deal, and I will tell you why,” Harris said. “Climate change is an existential threat.”
At the time, the price tag of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., trendy transformative idea to save the planet was about $10 trillion — though, really, the cost of deconstructing modernity is more likely to be in the tens of bajillions.
Harris’ campaign contends she no longer supports policies of the Green New Deal. And that’s fine. But it would probably be helpful to know what initially led her to back the elimination of fossil fuel energy production, the near-banning of meat and air travel, the retrofitting of “every building in America,” and a government-guaranteed job, home and “economic security” for all who are “unable or unwilling” to work.
Because some policy ideas are too dumb to forgive.
Remember, as well, that Harris didn’t endorse these policies as some idealistic young person. She was in her mid-50s, a senator from the most populous state in America who was running for the presidency, the same job she now seeks, when she thought it was a good idea to endorse the elimination of the combustion engine.
The economy is just the start. Harris has yet to answer a single genuine question on why she advocated the elimination of private health insurance or the decriminalization of illegal immigration. These aren’t tweaks in one’s political agenda. They represent two of the most vital issues facing voters.
Harris is also on the record supporting taxpayer-funded universal health care for illegal immigrants. On a 2019 ACLU questionnaire, the future “border czar” wrote that she was in favor of taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants — though she also pledged to end detentions altogether.
“Let me just be very clear about this,” Harris assured CNN’s Jake Tapper, every “human being” in the United States, citizen or not, deserves access to all government services, “period.”
The anonymous campaign official tasked with walking back this position failed to let us know why Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, no longer believes “human beings” deserve care. Though, to be fair, flip-flopping on an appeal to emotion is never easy.
Of course, an appropriately curious voter might also want Harris to clarify whether she regrets helping bail out Minnesota “protesters” who were burning down minority neighborhoods, whether she is still a fan of the “defund the police” movement, whether she still believes Black people should have their own set of laws, or whether she still supports the reparation racket, probably the most un-American vote-buying scheme in existence.
Harris has been able to treat over a dozen major on-the-record stances as if they never existed. Modern campaigns ostensibly exist to provide voters with information so they can make educated decisions.
The vice president, self-styled defender of our sacred democracy, isn’t even pretending it matters.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books — the most recent, “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.
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I’d like to say a word in her behalf,,,,Kamala makes me laugh!
“How do you solve a problem like Kamala,
How do you catch a frown and pin her down,
How do you find the word that means Kamala
A flibbertigibbet, a willow the wisp, a clown
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her, Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
How do you solve a problem like Kamala
And make a California moonbeam understand
When I’m with her I’m confused, out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
Unpredictable as weather, she is flightly as a feather
She’s a Snarling, she’s a demon, she’s a clam
She’d out pester any pest, drive a hornet from it’s nest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
She is gentle, she is wild, she’s a riddle, she’s a child
She’s a headache, she’s a cheesecake, she’s a squirl
How do you solve a problem like Kamala
How do you catch a fart and pin it down
How do you find the word that means Kamala?
A flibbertigibbet, a willow the wisp, a clown
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Kamala?
How do you vote a loon beam over your land?
The Nazi’s can have her! Maybe they can shut her VonTrapp.
KAMALA. HARRIS AND HER VICE PRESIDENT, TIM WALZ,” THE SONG,” BE A CLOWN, BE A CLOWN, ALL THE WORLD LOVES A CLOWN, COMES TO MIND.
“I’m sorry, a person can’t just wake up one morning and abandon their entire worldview without an explanation. I mean, they can try, but no sensible person would take them seriously.”
“These swirling platitudes and nervous laugh, however, don’t suggest that Harris isn’t bright. They suggest that she has no genuine philosophical or ethical belief system — other than, perhaps, obtaining and using power. Indeed, there’s little chance she will coherently expound on her sudden policy U-turns because they make zero ideological sense.”
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this Lying, destructive, corrupt, treasonous, dishonest, unethical Democrat Party cabal and their useful idiot self-serving Camal a Harris know no bounds. This treasonous Democrat Party and its “useful idiot” Kamala Harris will do or say Anything to be able to dictate control, then access power and retain it by any means available. No matter the costs to the people, the government, or the nation.
AND how can one ‘change your stance’, IF YOUR VALUES have not changed?
” there’s little chance she will coherently expound on her sudden policy U-turns because they make zero ideological sense.”,,,,Because she makes more hairpin U-turns about the headboards of government, than a Balding Hunter Biden makes about the headboards of a hooker hotel. No amount of hair transplants could hide his or HER self created moral and intellectual nakedness, nor their love of the exact same immoral things Joe taught Hunter that eventually became the Hotel Candid Camera of his own self-destruction.
EXPLAIN YOURSELF, KAMALA HARRIS, ” IS THE TITLE OF THIS Article, WHEN WALTZ FREESES OVER.!
“Let me just be very clear about this,” Harris assured CNN’s Jake Tapper, every “human being” in the United States, citizen or not, deserves access to all government services, “period.”
“Yea, well, That’s, you know, like your opinion, man…” Labowski (The Dude)
The LAW says otherwise.
Exactly.. QUITE a few times our constitution says CITIZENS are entitled to XYZ..
ILLEGAL invaders, are not citizens!
Bernie Sanders actually nailed it on this issue. She will say or do anything to elected, and will then revert to her old positions. (Not the ones Willie Brown is familiar with)
LOL Deacon. And very true.
He should know..
Camela has been by far the worst VP in America’s history. She has done NOTHING positive. And too believe that she will change strips and suddenly be positive is the epitome of grand naiveté. She will continue in the same modus operandi – wasteful, destructive, complicit manner.