by Ben Weingarten
Harris, seeking to unburden herself from what has been, is running from her radical leftist record as senator and vice president.
In Donald Trump’s return to X, he asked perhaps the pivotal question of the 2024 election: “Are you better off now than you were when I was president?”
Perhaps second only in importance to that question is this one: “When it comes to your agenda, Vice President Kamala Harris, are you lying now, or were you lying then?” It’s a question Trump will likely have to pose to Harris himself, given the information war regime media are waging on her behalf, having coronated her as the Democrat nominee and formed a complete protective bubble around her in the weeks since.
Harris — or more precisely Harris flacks, since they have been the ones addressing questions about her policy positions — has flip-flopped on banning fracking, “decriminalizing” illegal immigration, and providing universal government health care. She seeks to unburden herself from what has been — namely serving as one of the most left-wing senators during her tenure in the upper chamber, and then as No. 2 in arguably the most radically left-wing administration in American history.
In picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate too, she has seemed to embrace a kindred spirit. This is a man who has granted all manner of taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens, who seeks to provide a ladder to help fellow prospective “newcomers” catapult over any border wall. This is a supplier of tampons to boys’ bathrooms, an installer of a Covid snitch line, a shill for socialism, and a man who allowed George Floyd rioters to set Minneapolis ablaze — with Harris promoting a bail fund for the arsonists. He too has sought to unburden himself from what has been, as illustrated in his disgraceful stolen valor scandal.
How can Harris reconcile her past anti-energy, pro-invasion, health care-system-destroying record, the record of the Biden-Harris White House that so alienated Americans that The Party was forced to jettison its chief figurehead, and the record of her VP pick, with the positions of candidate Kamala? She cannot.
There are only two ways to understand “The Great Reimagining” underway, stipulating that the person now advocating for price controls has not had a genuine change of heart in the opposite direction. One is that Harris is cynical and holds Americans in contempt. She is what she has always been — an authoritarian leftist poised to Make America San Francisco — but, recognizing American voters would reject this fate out of hand, she has to lie, obfuscate, and evade scrutiny about her true beliefs at all costs.
Axios laid this out explicitly, its top editors reporting:
A big part of the Harris plan is to unapologetically change some of her more liberal positions, and claim her White House experience helped change her mind. …
She’s also fine plucking popular Trump ideas, notably ‘no tax on tips’ for service and hospitality workers — popular in Nevada, one of the biggest swing states. …
Her bet: whatever she says in the small, three-month window of her snap campaign will be what sticks. Harris knows most people know little about her. So she believes she can define herself, even if it includes flip-flops and co-opts.
In other words, Harris is trying to pull a fast one on the American people. Axios is conveying her campaign’s apparent view that we are idiots.
One thing she hasn’t flipped on is blaming the free market for her and Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s disastrous economic policies. Her policy to seek out price gauging… whatever that is… shows that she has no plans to try and correct the massive and wasteful spending the Democrats committed to bring about our massive inflation.