Jim, it’s not just governor of California in 2026 or even the presidency in 2028 that Kamala Harris could be eying. Dan Morain, Harris’s biographer, told the Telegraph that he wouldn’t be surprised to see her leading Planned Parenthood.

A role atop the abortion behemoth would be appropriate for Kamala Harris. Abortion was one of the few issues on which she seemed capable of speaking cogently during her failed 2024 presidential campaign. She brings to the subject the clarity and enthusiasm of a zealot. I wrote yesterday about how President Biden’s awarding a presidential medal of freedom to former Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards shows the extent to which both he and the party as a whole have radicalized on abortion. Harris is a good example:

Earlier this year, Kamala Harris became the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic. In her debate with Donald Trump, she declined to rule out supporting abortions in the final months of pregnancy. Just before the election, Harris rejected conscience protections for abortion.

Not for nothing did Catholics move decisively to Donald Trump in the most recent presidential election. Though it wasn’t Harris’s abortion views alone that led to her defeat. Her general inadequacies as a campaigner, and her campaign’s having burned through a billion dollars with not much to show for it, raise broader questions about her executive competence.

Having Harris in charge of Planned Parenthood would keep her involved in politics, an unfortunate outcome. But perhaps there’d be a silver lining if she rose to the occasion with the same aplomb with which she campaigned for president.