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:
When she ran for president the first time, Kamala Harris darted to the left as she fought for attention from the Democratic Party’s liberal wing.
After she dropped out, social and racial justice protests swept across the country in the summer of 2020, and Ms….
