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I was reading an interesting piece by Fred Bauer in UnHerd on the “reboot” of Kamala Harris’ campaign strategy.
After months of avoiding the media almost entirely, she is now talking in less controlled settings, although so far, the only journalist she has actually sat down with is 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker, who did a good job trying to pin down a slippery Kamala Harris. The interview did not go well.
Dana Bash isn’t a good journalist, so I consider this Harris’ first interview.
Bauer’s piece crystallized something in my mind–something I have thought and said before, but I now see more clearly: Harris isn’t just avoiding talking about policy because she is too radical for the electorate; rather, her campaign is about nothing but social class.
She…
