Vice President Kamala Harris clearly doesn't have the temperament or intellectual capacity to succeed in national politics. Perhaps she missed her calling as a 1990s sitcom star. She has the awkward persona, the clueless whimsy, the cackle. What might have been?

Crucial context: Harris spent the 1990s laying the groundwork for her political career by dating influential figures such as Willie Brown, the speaker of the California State Assembly from 1980 to 1995. The rest is history.