Beneath the coordinated, manufactured hype campaign promoting Kamala Harris, it’s not hard to detect an air of desperation. We’re constantly being told that Harris is a transformative candidate who will save democracy as we know it, but she’s dodged pretty much every opportunity to answer serious questions since stealing the nomination.
The whole thing violates a basic rule of persuasion, which is that you’re supposed to show, not tell. Everything’s more convincing when you see it, instead of hearing about it. But Harris isn’t capable of making the case for her own candidacy. The best she can do is cackle and repeat her stump speech. So it falls on professional commentators to articulate why it makes sense to vote for her.
The problem that these commentators have is that, if they go into any kind of detail about the policies Harris has said she supports, then she will…
