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The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip

Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters.

So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the border.

But as soon as he was elected in 2020, Biden became the leftist veneer for a hyper-radical Obama third term.

Fooled and naïve voters were shocked that their supposedly moderate candidate turned into a veritable neo-socialist president.

In general, the left acknowledges that its spread-the-wealth, high taxes, big government, open borders, soft on crime, and woke DEI agendas don’t appeal to 51 percent of the people.

That reality requires disinformation for leftist policies to be implemented.

No one voted for the Biden-Harris ticket to borrow trillions sparking hyperinflation, to wage war on fossil fuels, to go woke, to welcome in 10 million illegal aliens, to abandon $50 billion in weapons to the terrorist Taliban, and to find America facing existential wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and soon perhaps over Taiwan.

But getting leftists elected requires fooling the American people into thinking their “moderate” campaign veneers will continue into their presidencies—even though they never do.

So, for now, Harris and her new vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, will smother all their cherished left-wing positions—at least until November.

The two left-wing chameleons will assume the temporary identities and policies of “moderates.” That is a de facto admission that they know that the public does not want any of their true agendas.

The temporary metamorphosis means that the leftist nominees superficially feign agreement with what most Americans support—energy independence, low taxes, limited government, strong defense, deterrent foreign policy, secure borders, legal-only immigration, and assimilation rather than woke/DEI tribalism.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the most brazen and extreme examples of left-wing flip-floppers in memory.

But for both, the cartwheeling will still be difficult.

Harris is utterly incapable of articulating a coherent thought without a teleprompter or a staged interview. Walz is a buffoon who, in his first speech as the nominee, screamed out the “couch” lie about J.D. Vance and then stupidly bragged of his falsehood.

Harris, until recently, was proud that she had been one of the most radical California politicians in memory. She ran such a hard-left, polarizing presidential bid against Biden in 2020 that she could not capture even a single Democrat delegate.

Now she has selected as her vice president pick the most left-wing governor in the nation. Walz, during the long 2020 summer of rioting, allowed BLM and Antifa to run amuck in Minnesota while his new partner Harris raised bail for those jailed for violence.

Walz, like Harris, has done his best to stop pipelines and curtail fossil fuels.

He once boasted that “Democrats go into depression” when they see electoral maps shaded in red, “but it’s mostly rocks and cows that are in that red area.”

Apparently, his advice for Democrats was just to win urban areas and don’t sweat alienating greater rural Minnesota regions where fewer voters live—a blueprint for their 2024 campaign.

That snark was an expansion of Barack Obama’s dismissal of rural Pennsylvanians as “clingers” and Hillary Clinton’s trashing of the rural working class as “deplorables.”

By selecting the hard-left Walz, Harris reminds the nation who runs the Democratic Party. It is preparing for a hard-left neo-socialist administration—while it seeks to deceive the public for the next 90 days that Harris-Walz are temporary moderates.

Like the cognitively challenged Joe Biden in 2020, word-salad Harris won’t be let out to campaign much by her wary handlers.

Instead, she will outraise Trump, count on non-Election Day balloting, pose as a centrist, and let her surrogates, like the blowhard Walz, brand Trump as a criminal extremist.

But if the current initial Harris-Walz flipping is embarrassing, their eventual post-November flopping back to the left will be shameless—and dangerous for the nation.

In 2025, under a Harris-Walz presidency, borders would again magically evaporate. Millions more illegal aliens would regroup and flood into the U.S.

Printing more trillions of dollars would spike more hyperinflation. Cutting defense would further encourage even more wars in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

More woke and DEI mandates would ensure more tribal disunity.

Harris-Walz would try fulfilling earlier promises to ban fracking and horizontal drilling, render the U.S. vulnerable to hostile foreign oil producers, distance the U.S. from Israel, and out-appease Biden’s coddling of Iran.

They would continue the crazy left-wing war on the Supreme Court and implement Joe Biden’s plan to neuter it.

But for now?

The Harris-Walz message is clear: “In order to run your country for the next four years, we must lie and deceive you for the next three months.”

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About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

Photo: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - AUGUST 6: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz looks on during a campaign event at Girard College on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of speculation about who her running mate would be, selecting the 60-year-old midwestern governor over other candidates. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Notable Replies

  1. The Trump/Vance campaign and PACs needs to run ads that are nothing but clips of Harris/Walz’s public statements regarding their respective administrations legislative “wins”. No nicknames, no personal comments, just documentation of what these two have done with the power they have been given, in their own words with the final moments of the ads asking the essential questions --has any of this made your life better?

  2. It’s a fifty-five-forty-five country at best for Democrats. Once again, they have already started lying about Trump, as they did during his first term. The Biden Disaster has left them with an empty bag of dirty tricks, at least the kind that wouldn’t cause states to secede outright. So, Democrats might do something far more audacious than their 2020 steal. One of its pathologies was recently displayed when Homeland Security security agents’ incompetence allowed a crank to take several shots at the former president. What will these desperate people do next?

    “But if the current initial Harris-Walz flipping is embarrassing, their eventual post-November flopping back to the left will be shameless—and dangerous for the nation.” That’s putting it mildly. If, after waiting four long years to get rid of disastrous Democrat policies, the population has a more extreme and dangerous version imposed on it, our current national arrangement would not be long for this world.

  3. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If the Harris-Walz duo pull off a fraudulent win in November, they will do so secure in the knowledge that their own stacked Justice Department won’t do a damn thing about it. The Roberts Supreme Court won’t touch the issue with a 10-foot pole, just like they abdicated the same responsibility in 2020. That’s why I remain largely pessimistic about this November.

    There will be constant media spin–a lionization of those two imbeciles like you’ve never seen before; there will be massive cheating, with motor-voter illegal aliens casting ballots, harvesting, and rule changes; there will be (unfortunately) Trump’s and the RNC’s unforced errors, magnified by a hostile media and popular culture; there will be colossal International interests, supra-national, hyper-powerful lobbying groups with a strong vested interest in keeping Trump out of power; and, of course, there will be the sheer stupidity of a good 40% of the electorate, on whom Democrats can always count.

    In short, I believe only a miracle will result in a Trump win. Yes, miracles happen, but Democrats have a way to minimize that likelihood.

  4. Who will guard the guards indeed! You know the answer to this. It is our civic duty to watch the watchers. Most Americans do not take this duty seriously. The Press has divested itself of its constitutional responsibility to keep citizens informed. Democrats are betting the farm on the Yut Vote and the Sacred Gimmegrants, The voters may surprise them.

    What will the outcome be when both sides challenge the election? Not so long ago, Bush v. Gore resulted in months of deliberations. No more phony insurrections this time around. Americans will go full secession. Look at the number of actions from Vermont to Oregon seeking to divide their states. If a house divided against itself cannot stand, perhaps it can wait out the inevitable civil war?

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