Kamala Harris Deserved Better

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Kristoffer Ealy

Let me say something before the pundits pounce and the Twitter politicos start “well actually”-ing me to death: I admire Kamala Harris. No, not blindly. No, not because she’s flawless. And no, not because I think she ran a perfect campaign. But because she is a Black woman in America — and somehow, after everything this country has done to women who look like her, she still had the audacity to try.

In a perfect world, Joe Biden would’ve run again in 2024. Yeah, I said it. Call me nostalgic, call me delusional — but hear me out. If he’d won, he would’ve been called old, mocked for slurring his words, and told he wasn’t the Biden of old. If he’d lost? We’d still be under President Trump, except now Harris would’ve had time to define her political identity on her own terms and come back in 2028 with a full, earned mandate. Instead, the Democrats gave her a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing and then acted shocked when the image didn’t come together.

They set her up. The same people who now complain about her campaign being lackluster are the ones who never wanted her to run in the first place. According to a Democratic megadonor, even Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi didn’t want her as the nominee. That’s right. The same Obama who famously declared “Don’t boo — vote!” was privately booing her behind closed doors. Biden gave her the nod, but it was hardly a coronation. It was more like a reluctant passing of the torch after everyone else forgot to bring matches.

Once she got the nomination, the donor class — those brave keyboard warriors of capitalism — didn’t rally behind her. They just waited for her to prove them wrong. And when she couldn’t pull a miracle out of a flaming dumpster, they bailed. No George Clooney op-ed was going to change that. Not when Democrats were still wandering the political desert trying to manifest a mythical unicorn candidate instead of backing the one they had.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/kamala-harris-deserved-better

[CrispyQ]

1. I totally agree with this op ed.

I feel the entire party owes Harris a huge apology. I was so angry at all the finger pointing & she should have done this & she shouldn't have done that & blah fucking blah. She pulled off an amazing campaign & she did it in three months. I was one of the last defenders of Joe Biden before he stepped down but he lost me when he came out & said he thought he would have won. No you wouldn't have, Joe. The media was going to show that image of you looking clueless, with your mouth hanging open at the debate, non-stop.

[Ocelot II]

2. Excellent essay. I agree 100%. Harris deserves a million times the respect she got

from the chattering classes who have been looking for someone to blame.