There is a reason that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is flip-flopping on nearly every position she held during her failed presidential run four years ago, and there is a reason the mental contortionists in the corporate press are working overtime to protect her. She is extraordinarily radical.
Despite headlines such as the Associated Press’s “Harris is calibrating her policy pitch for going to battle with Trump” and the Hill’s “GOP ready to pounce on Harris policy pivots,” the fact of the matter is that the vice president is engaged in a weapons-grade lying spree that dwarfs those of other predictably cynical politicians.
Harris was the most liberal member of the Senate during her brief tenure in the upper house of Congress, even surpassing Marxist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Harris co-sponsored Medicare for All, said repeatedly that she would crush the domestic energy sector by issuing a ban on fracking, and supported the so-called Green New Deal. She bailed out Black Lives Matter and antifa rioters during the summer 2020 George Floyd riots and supports taxpayer-funded abortion “without limitations.”
Shadow President Harris may be the most radically anti-Second Amendment politician of the last several decades. During her 2019 presidential run, she claimed that she would use executive action to persecute gun dealers, implement comprehensive background checks, and ban what she calls “assault weapons.” The 44 million AR-15s, along with the additional several million AK-47s and other semi-automatics in private hands in the U.S., would all fall under the vice president’s deranged definition of “assault weapon.”
Harris bragged that as California attorney general she sent officers to “knock on the doors of people” whom the state viewed as undesirable.
“We sent law enforcement out to take those guns because we have to deal with this on all levels,” Harris told an audience at a 2019 forum for Democratic candidates.
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Unnamed Harris staffers have leaked to the press that the vice president has backtracked on several of her most egregious positions, including mandatory gun buybacks and the fracking ban, but the candidate herself has not clarified any of these positions. In the two weeks since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris has yet to answer a single serious question from a journalist, a trend that could presumably continue until after the election.
Given her history and propensity to lie shamelessly and indiscriminately, Harris should be judged by her record, not by focus-grouped efforts to keep pace with a Trump-Vance campaign that continues to move to the center on policy. Throughout her career, Harris has viewed the Constitution and Bill of Rights as roadblocks to be thwarted and individual liberties as nothing more than a nuisance in her quest for power. Harris is a true believer: a San Francisco leftist who would do untold damage to the republic if given the opportunity.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.