Even the Marxist New Republic Is Now Blasting Kamala Harris for Refusing to Say What She Even Believes In

From Matt Vespa at Townhall:

Three days before the Times poll came out, amid growing consternation about her deliberate lack of a clear and detailed agenda, Kamala Harris's campaign announced a new policy--sort of. Harris, her campaign said, was no longer in favor of banning plastic straws.

Emphasis added for the humor value.

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The campaign's strategy, it seemed, was to ride those good summer vibes and avoid the risk of an aggressive policy agenda that would expose her to criticism. But having too few policies is also risky, not least because it makes Harris look like she doesn't stand for anything (and also because her few policy stances then get nitpicked to death: Her price-gouging solution was roundly criticized by economists across the political spectrum, while her tip policy has come under fire because it was first taken up by Trump).

The Harris campaign is only now, belatedly, realizing that this is a problem. On Sunday, they finally added an "Issues" section to her website. It includes a slew of policies that the campaign has previously outlined, as well as sections on reproductive and civil rights. Unfortunately for Harris, its release was undermined by a simple but telling error: The page's source code revealed that parts of the platform were copied directly from Biden's campaign page.

This is dangerous territory for Harris, given that the Times poll found that more than 60 percent of voters wanted the next president to represent a "major change" from Biden--and only a quarter felt that Harris represented that change.

The New Republic wants Kamala were to announce her real positions, to commit herself out loud to Marxism. It's so obvious she's a far-left Marxist that even CNN has been reporting on it -- and troubled by it.

John Sexton:

What does Kamala Harris actually believe? I don't think anyone knows for certain but looking back over her run for president in 2019, it is striking how committed she seemed to be to Medicare for All at the time.

And yet, she also had significant trouble defending the plan, not just once but multiple times. She famously raised her hand, along with Bernie Sanders, when asked during a debate who would give up private insurance for Medicare for All. But the next day she was walking it back, claiming she was talking about her personal insurance...or something.

All of this is still very relevant because Harris has now abandoned Medicare for All, but it's still likely questions about her shifting position will come up during tonight's debate. In advance of that debate the Harris camp is doing its best, with the help of friendly media, to square the circle between what she was saying then and what she is saying now.

The Harris campaign and her White House office acknowledged that Harris's health-care positions have shifted since her last bid for the presidency. In interviews, officials said her previous support for Medicare-for-all and current pledge to build on private health insurance draw from a core conviction to expand health coverage and access to services....

Just look how hard the Washington Post is working to make her past position something that happened a long time ago and far, far away.

Harris's allies say that her Medicare-for-all plan -- to paraphrase their candidate -- didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. The 2019 proposal needs to be understood in the context of all that came before it.

First came a memorable town hall in August 2017 -- more than 2,500 days ago, and more than 2,500 miles away from Tuesday's debate stage -- where the freshman senator made a promise that would help shape her first presidential campaign.

There were two big problems with Medicare for All, one political and one practical. The political problem was that it would end private insurance, meaning everyone would lose the insurance they currently have. That was always unpopular. Harris did her best to talk around this problem in 2019, but she wasn't very convincing (see the videos below).

The other problem is practical. The cost of any Medicare for All program would be tens of trillions of dollars over 10 years. An estimate of the cost of Harris' 2019 plan produced last month put the cost in the realm of $44 trillion over a decade.

Kamala Harris claims -- wait, I mean anonymous, unnamed staffers claim on her behalf to her Media shills -- that "three and a half years of serving as Vice President have informed her position" -- but she also wants you to know that "my values haven't changed." Wink.

Here's Kamala Harris talking about her never-changing values:

Obviously, she also wants to pay for all medical needs of illegal aliens, too:

As you know, her Anonymous Unnamed Advisors are claiming, in whispers, that's she's abandoned a whole bunch of positions she won't commit to abandoning publicly.

Sexton again, quoting CNN's "KFile."

When asked about criminal justice reform on the questionnaire, she wrote she would end immigration detention facilities (along with private prisons). Harris also said she supported decreasing funding for ICE.

"Our immigrant detention system is out of control, and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children," Harris wrote. "I was one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE."

Sexton:

Harris also pledged to end the use of ICE detainers which allow the group to pick up criminals from a jail rather than trying to find them in neighborhoods. We have one recent example from New York City of how failing to honor these requests can leave the door open for criminals to carry out additional crimes.

When ICE sees an arrest of a wanted illegal alien eligible for deportation, they send a detainer -- a request for the local court of jail to hold the prisoner so that ICE can pick them up and deport them. The definition of a Sanctuary City is refusing to honor these requests. (The feds cannot force local police to do their bidding because of federalism, they can only request.)

Kamala Harris has committed to ending ICE detainers at the federal level -- ICE can never even ask for prisoners to be held to be picked up for deportation. Even when it comes to cooperative jurisdictions.

In other words: Harris wants to make the US a Sanctuary Nation.

Of course she has repeatedly backed the radical black anarchist Defund the Police movement.

KFile again:

Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for "defund the police" in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign.

Harris said in the June radio interview the movement "rightly" called out the amount of money spent on police departments instead of community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, emphasizing that more police did not equate to more public safety.

"This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities," Harris said on a New York-based radio program "Ebro in the Morning" on June 9, 2020, adding that US cities were "militarizing police" but "defunding public schools."

Ed Morrissey adds:

Nor is that the only example cited by CNN. They also mention Harris' praise for then-mayor Eric Garcetti's decision to cut $150 million from the chronically underfunded budget of the Los Angeles Police Department in the immediate wake of the George Floyd riots. At the same time, Harris went on Good Morning America on June 9, 2020 to defend the Defund the Police movement, and attack its critics as spreading "fear" about rethinking the public-safety paradigm. Harris told Stephanopoulos that schools and jobs would mean less need for police, and explicitly endorsed Garcetti's LAPD budget cut...

But whatever, some unnamed anonymous aides whisper to Dana Bash that "three and a half years serving as vice president" have now informed her and caused her position to shift in a completely-undefined way.

She's literally playing a game of "You can't criticize me for that position, because that's not my position anymore" then when you ask what her position is, she says "Nyah, nyah, I'm not telling, you'll have to guess, but don't bother guessing, because that's wrong too."

Here's further evidence "her values haven't changed:" Her campaign hired the environmental extremist who wants to ban all gas stoves.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has a new "climate engagement director": Camila Thorndike, a veteran figure in the far-left climate movement who has suggested she will not have children over fear of climate change and most recently worked for a group at the center of efforts to ban gas stoves.

Thorndike served for two years in various senior positions at Rewiring America, a climate-focused nonprofit that has advocated for the United States to rapidly electrify its entire economy--from the transportation and manufacturing sectors, to the residential and power sectors--according to her LinkedIn profile. In her role with the Harris campaign, she will be tasked with ginning up support for Harris from climate activists.

Thorndike has also promoted the idea that fear of climate change is a good reason to avoid having children. In 2022, for example, she told the Washington Post that she is hesitant to have a child out of "love for my hypothetical child" and because she wants to "protect them from suffering."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:05 PM

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