Dear Kamala, Please Stick Around

On Monday, the internet was full of discussion about Kamala Harris. And yes, you are permitted to wonder why.

Let’s face it, nobody in America gives a damn about her, and nobody should. She’s an utterly forgettable hack politician, a blithering incompetent who demonstrated beyond doubt that she can’t give honest or thoughtful answers even in a friendly interview. Worse, she showed off a complete lack of ethics, throwing out bile-filled charges that Donald Trump was a fascist dictator in the making as a means of, at least, scaring Democrat voters to the polls or, more accurately, attempting to gin up one of her party’s crazies to assassinate him.

It was no surprise that Harris, who had slept her way to the middle and DEI’d her way to the top, turned into a Hollywood-“girlboss”-remake version of Icarus on election night as her party burned and crashed, not just at the top of the ticket, but in Senate and House races as well. The Democrats are now mired in the political wilderness for at least the next two years and — even worse for them — Trump The Fascist Dictator now has a near 60 percent approval rating for the appointments and direction his transition team has embarked on.

And that direction is as close to a 180-degree turn from what Kamala Harris had on offer as it’s possible to have. In fact, the secret to Trump’s spike in popularity is his pledge to sic Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on government waste, to have Pete Hegseth restructure the Department of Defense, to have Tom Homan round up and deport as many illegals as possible (a CBS poll found 73 percent agreement that it’s a priority and 57 percent agree with deporting all of the illegals), and have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make America healthy again by completely overhauling the public health bureaucracy, among other giant changes. Prior to Trump’s victory earlier this month, it wasn’t considered possible to move this far.

The Overton Window definitely shifted on Nov. 5. The world changed. And Kamala Harris, and a political party that would hand her its nomination for president without any demonstration of political viability on her part, no longer fit within that window.

Democrats won’t escape the wilderness until they come up with a new brand and a new definition. Eventually, they will, as all parties do upon losing. But sometimes, it takes a while.

Let’s remember that when Industrial Age Republicanism, in the personage of Herbert Hoover, was roundly repudiated in the 1932 election by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Democrat Party, the GOP didn’t recapture the White House for 20 years — and when it did, virtually all of the basic assumptions about politics that FDR had put in place were facts of life not to be substantially altered.

It would be a massive boon to America’s future prospects if the kinds of reforms being contemplated by Trump’s transition team were to replace those New Deal political realities. We’d have a smaller and less intrusive government, we’d be less likely to send young men and women off to die on some stupid globalist adventure, and we’d stop pretending that a trace gas in the atmosphere, best understood as plant food, will cook the planet. We’d be more prosperous and have a healthier democracy and we’d likely live longer and be less sick.

And that’s why we should all root for Kamala Harris.

Politico ran a piece over the weekend which was clearly commissioned by what’s left of her team. It suggested she’s actually the Democrats’ leading political figure with 2028 sitting over the horizon:

Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.

But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”

She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.

“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”

It’s eminently desirable that the foreign potentates and World Economic Forum billionaires, who grubstaked her campaign as it bribed Hollywood celebrities and friendly legacy media shills, put together the funding for this “entity” of Kamala’s. By all means she should have the opportunity to grift on a level, if not quite that of the Clintons and Obamas, then at least such that she might still fly private and collect six-figure checks to give word salad speeches pandering to unions and non-profit leftist advocacy groups until such time as she returns to the campaign trail.

This would seem like a very good thing for Alex Soros, Larry Fink, and Reid Hoffman to put their money into. Especially since another Democrat moneybag, trial lawyer supreme John Morgan, has begun furiously billowing smoke signals from outside the reservation…

We need Kamala Harris cemented as the face and voice of the Democrat Party as long as possible, or at least until Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can take over. Should that happen, the promise of making the Trump transition the new reality in American politics can be realized.

But is this actually possible?

Well, maybe. Says Politico…

A snap poll of the 2028 field found Harris at 41 percent, a significant lead over the others: Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear and several others who all were in single digits.

Now, we’ve been here before. Harris went into the 2020 cycle as the clubhouse favorite, and she crashed and burned even before Iowa. Is she more marketable now?

Who else can push the Obamunist platform of unlimited ruling-elite cultural, economic, and political power, Chinese ascendancy, and obeisance to Davos’ dictates at the expense of the American working class? J.B. Pritzker and his family’s sick transgenderist legacy?

I’m thinking no.

It might just have to be Kamala, at least until the Democrats decide to fully divorce from Obamunism.

And if it is, that’s just fine. Even if it does turn the utterly depraved James Carville into a raving madman. Which has already happened.

This is Thanksgiving week. Let’s give thanks for Kamala and wish her a bright future as the leader of the Democrat Party for as long as they can stand her and then some.

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