“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” That’s a simple question, and its simplicity clarified a presidential campaign 44 years ago. It has become a standard in elections involving incumbent administrations, and anyone running for another four years in office has had to prepare an answer in the affirmative.
Until now, that is. Kamala Harris has fumbled that question multiple times, including at the very start of her first (and apparently only) debate with Donald Trump. Dana Bash tried to ask it twice in Harris’ only interview with a national media outlet, and got nothing but word salads both times. Harris appeared too inept to provide a coherent answer, likely because the only coherent honest answer to that question would be Hell no.
We thought the word salads might come from Harris’ inability to extemporaneously craft an answer. If so, that illness is contagious, as…
