Whiplash Narrative—Kamala’s Tough but Don’t Pick on Her!

by Stephen Kruiser

Now that Donald Trump’s opponent is, once again, a female who checks off a HISTORIC box for the Democrats, some déjà vu is creeping back in for me. Kamala Harris is Hillary 2.0, but with even creepier and more uncomfortable laughter.

The Democrats are once again taking a modified “have their cake and eat it too” approach to their female presidential candidate. The great unwashed are supposed to revere her as a self-confident, powerful and accomplished woman. They would prefer, however, that this fierce lioness not be challenged by her opponents.

In other words: don’t pick on girls.

My latest “Trump Derangement Syndrome of the Week” column highlights an Op-Ed in The New York Times that’s about how formidable the leftist women who have been trying to bring down Donald Trump are:

One of the ridiculous narratives that quickly took shape after it was announced that Kamala Harris would be anointed as the Democratic nominee is that Trump is afraid of running against a powerful woman. That’s right, they’re doing their “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” thing again and carrying on with a story that’s been disproven by relatively recent history.

Per the latest leftist fairy tale, Donald Trump is quaking in his dress shoes now that he’s facing off against Madame Veep. However, he isn’t supposed challenge her on anything she has ever said or done in her political career.

They haven’t gotten to the point where they’re shrieking “Sexism!” all of the time just yet, but that’s coming.  With Kamala Harris, they can thrown in the occasional “Racism!” too. What the flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been attempting to do is send Harris’s record deep down the memory hole. Once again, the Democrats behave as if regular folks don’t have access to the internet.

To the surprise of no one outside of the pompous, out of touch journo class in America, that approach hasn’t been working out for them. Now they’re trying to demonize any attempts by Trump and the Republican National Committee to go after Harris’s record. This is from something that my friend Ed Morrissey wrote at our sister site HotAir yesterday:

Oh noes! Heaven forfend that a political candidate answer for their positions from four whole years ago!

Side note: Has anyone at the New York Times covered a political campaign before? Because usually the idea is to debate policy positions taken publicly as an indicator of what might take place when a candidate wins. Well, usually, but we’ll get to the NYT’s modus operandi in a moment.

Yesterday afternoon, the Paper of Record took great offense at Republicans who want to highlight Kamala Harris’ record in the upcoming months. That’s called “weaponization” rather than “accountability” when Republicans do it, apparently

At various times since President LOLEightyonemillion began occupying the Oval Office, the Dems’ media lapdogs have tried to make Kamala Harris seem like an active power player in the administration. Her early tenure as Border Czar received a lot of attention from them, and it was the first thing they tried to pretend didn’t happen.

Months ago, when they knew that the political end was nigh for Joe Biden but weren’t publicly admitting it, the propagandists were building up Harris for her eventual turn at the top of the ticket. This is from a column I wrote in February:

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