The DNC will serve as a platform to perpetuate lies about Kamala Harris by Democrats
Democrats will be putting on a show at their national convention this week — and absolutely nothing but a show.
Vice President Kamala Harris has already been crowned the nominee in an online vote: Nothing will actually be decided in Chicago.
Which makes the convention as much of a fake as the candidate.
The show will strive to present Harris is a fresh face with new ideas, rather than a veteran Hollywood progressive pitching the same policy mix she’s embraced these last 3½ years as President Biden’s No. 2: policies that sent inflation surging, millions of illegal migrants surging into the interior, energy prices soaring and the economy slowing.
The fiction is of the party “joyfully” embracing this surprise marvel, rather than falling back on her after its leaders pushed out Biden when they finally realized could only lose and drag down their Senate and House hopefuls, too.
Yet she’s a less familiar face than Joe mainly because she’s been a do-nothing veep who largely avoided the media once it became clear she’d stick her foot in her mouth every time she was in front of a camera without a teleprompter.
Recall the disastrous Lester Holt interview where she claimed she’d been to the border when she hadn’t (and got called out on it).
Democrats are relieved that Joe’s out, but their enthusiasm for Kamala depends on keeping her a blank slate to most voters.
And she’s inevitably filling in that blank — and so ending her honeymoon.
She just doubled-down on the worst of Joe’s policies, promising $2 trillion in goodies that add up to little more than vote-buying: cancel billions in medical debt, “forgiving” more student loans, a $6,000 tax credit for newborns $25,000 for homebuyers.
Spend, spend, spend! More of exactly what caused triggered crushing inflation in the first place.
And her prescription for inflation? Stop “price-gouging,” though it’s higher wholesale costs, not corporate greed, that’s driven eye-popping costs for basic goods.
Biden himself tried both the “bribe the voters” and “blame the corporations” gimmicks; Harris is barely even repackaging them.
And her only other “fresh” ideas come straight from the opposition: Donald Trump’s “no tax on tips” and JD Vance’s “boost the child tax credit” talk.
She’s actually dropped any ideas that distinguished her from Joe (banning fracking, supporting single-payer health care, doing away with ICE) because they were losers when she ran on them four years ago, and are even worse now.
But the DNC show will use pomp and circumstance to paint Harris as the second coming of Barack Obama — a symbol of hope and change.
That’s why they’re rushing Joe onstage — and off, ASAP — on the first night.
The big crowd-pleasers will be the Obamas the second night and Bill Clinton on the third.
But Kamala Harris herself has to carry the finale, still bringing nothing new to the table — leaving undecided viewers to ask why the candidate who stands for Democrats’ future is so hopelessly less inspiring than the ones who stand for its past.
