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Kamala’s Inane Talking Points

As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris Campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd.

Claiming that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not work—especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and would-be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Nor was the next Harris meme convincing that the frenetic and non-stop Trump was somehow “exhausted,” “senile,” and “confused.” Voters know the workdays of the younger Harris are usually far shorter—or sometimes not workdays at all.

But Harris also falsely claimed the physically and mentally challenged Biden was, in her words, “absolutely authoritative” and “very bold and vibrant.”

Now Harris asserts that Trump is a “fascist,” a “dictator,” and “unfit” for office. But this new talking point will also not stop the Harris campaign’s hemorrhaging—and for a variety of reasons.

First, voters see the election as a conflict of two absolutely antithetical visions.

On the one hand, is the prior Trump 2017-20 concrete record: border security, no major wars abroad, calm in the Middle East, a deterred Russia, Iran, and China, low inflation, low interest rates, lower crime, lower taxes, strong deterrent military—and opposition to mandatory electric vehicle mandates, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the woke/DEI agenda.

On the other hand, is the Biden-Harris 2021-2024 record: the unchecked entry of 12-20 million illegal aliens and a destroyed border. People still struggle under Biden-Harris’s earlier hyperinflation and high interest rates. The horrific regional wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue. Biden-Harris embraces the unpopular DEI/Woke agenda.

Harris herself knows that the Biden-Harris years were a failure. That is why she has shed almost all of their hard left-wing agendas—policies she has embraced for much of her adult life.

So suddenly, in the last 90 or so days, Harris has completely flipped and flopped.

Now she is for more of, not defunding, the police. She pivots for a secure border, not 20 million illegal aliens pouring across it. Harris brags about fossil fuel energy, not banning fracking, and for increasing, not cutting, defense.

In fact, several endangered incumbent Democrat senators in swing states are claiming more allegiance to Trump’s issues than identifying with Harris and her unpopular record as vice president.

Voters likely conclude that if Trump doubles down on his record, while even Harris and many senators temporarily piggyback on it, then it must be more effective and popular than Harris’s own.

Second, Harris now claims Trump is a fascist and insurrectionist.

But mouthing ad nausaem “January 6th” no longer persuades voters that Trump is a danger to anyone. They recall that Harris bragged of the far more violent demonstrations of 2020—35 killed, $2 billion in damage, 1,500 law enforcement officers injured, 14,000 arrested—that the unrest would not and “should not” stop, while drumming up support to bail out jailed violent protestors.

Nor does the slur that Trump is a fascist resonate. The Obama and Biden-Harris administrations weaponized the CIA and FBI to interfere in the 2016 and 2020 elections by peddling the fake Steele dossier and suppressing all the embarrassing news about Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop.

Trump certainly did not coordinate, as Biden did, with local, state, and federal prosecutors to wage lawfare prosecutions to destroy his political opponents. He did not use the FBI to partner with social media to suppress the news.

Neither Trump nor his supporters tried to remove Biden from state ballots.

The Republican House majority did not impeach Biden twice despite the Biden family’s corruption and Joe Biden’s unlawful, decades-long removal of classified papers to several insecure private residences.

Trump and the Republicans never coercively removed the party’s primary-winning nominee. They did not nullify the will of 14 million primary voters. And in backroom fashion, they did not anoint a candidate who had never entered a single primary in her life.

Nor did Trump support packing the Supreme Court. He does not seek unconstitutional means of destroying the Electoral College. He is not demanding an end to the Senate filibuster or the creation of two new states to obtain four partisan senate seats.

Third, as for Trump being “unfit” and lacking “decorum,” it depends on what were the Biden-Harris standards?

Having a trans activist reveal his breasts on camera at a White House “pride party?”

Biden’s reportedly calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a f—ing idiot” and “son of a b—ch?” Bragging about locking Trump up, while waging lawfare against him?

Unleashing son Hunter Biden with impunity to shake down foreign governments?

The election will not be decided on these empty talking points or fake media-generated narratives.

Instead, only two criteria matter: Which candidate’s past record and current agenda best appeal to voters? And which candidate seems the most authentic and genuine?

 

 

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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: California Senator Kamala Harris speaks onstage during the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on October 15, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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  1. Well, there is that.

    By now - unless one has just returned from a visit to Mars after living there for decades - it is likely impossible for a reasonable person not to “grok” that the oh so not so lovely, Kamala - is a Lady of Fascination, a willing escort of the sort who?

    Seen her Opportunities and Took 'Em.

    But, she is actually, perfect - please allow me to explain.

    The LEFT - the communists, Democrats - led ostensibly by the sociopath, pathological liar - party coordinator from Chicago, who never saw a reflection of himself in a mirror or heard a fawning compliment he didn’t like? Not to mention ever thought nor would, could think he wasn’t the smartest man in the room - Obama?

    They are the perfect manifestations of, faces of an agenda that is akin to an empty vessel claiming it is full,

    or like those “…whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.”

    Because the entire premise upon which they have based their concept and understanding of life and reality is false - built on ignoring the truth, reality and abrogating responsibility for using their minds and free will to seek understanding.

    Consequent? They have no choice for the sake of their “sanity” - since there is no going back from the ugly, vicious, vile and nihilistic paradigm they have based their entire lives upon at this late date?

    They have no choice but to - like bulls in a china shop, kids let loose in a candy store unsupervised

    but to wreak havoc and try to lay low all who don’t embrace, get with the program, in lock step with their vision of the future utopia that they “know” is best for all of us.

    Their types have always been with, been the plagues that have beset humanity - in less “kind and gentler” times - it was, shall we say, easier to “solve” the problem they presented but - that was then, this is now.

    But, for anyone to think - for even a second that we should, that it is incumbent upon us - to turn the other cheek, extend an olive branch and hope for comity with them?

    Well, if you think that way? I have this wonderful, beautiful bridge located in Brooklyn that I have fee simple title to that I want to show you because I just know you will be interested in buying it.

    Just call: 1-800-I-AM-A FOOL

  2. It isn’t easy to understand how a political party that craves power above all else would promote a person as unworthy of being president as Kamala Harris. Democrats do put a lot of faith in their propaganda subsidiaries to make their case. But there isn’t one for them to make on her behalf. It’s too obvious that she is, like Biden, another do-anything-for-the-Democrat Party dupe. The cleverest propaganda can hide her essential unworthiness to be president for only so long. For it to be effective, she needed Democrats to delay their coup for another month. A consensus opinion can spool up if given enough time, and voters have had enough almost too much. Harris lacks even the mental capacity to be a dupe. Loyalists will vote for her because she has a ‘D’ after her name. That’s a lot of people. But it won’t be enough. Elections should be between two candidates with a similar vision but a different way of getting there. This isn’t one of them, and most voters know it only too well.

  3. For over 100 years the Democrats - the party of slavery and the Communists - Bolsheviks - who found that employing their violent, bombing Russian tactics here didn’t work and injurious to their health due to the fact that - J. Edgar - despite his personal character failings - had absolutely no compunction about killing them outright and so being cowards - albeit even if killers at heart - decided to join forces with and hide in plain sight become the agents of real power in the Democrat Party.

    For 100 years they played along to get along: pretending, adopting any guise they felt would serve their violent, vicious, corrupt purposes - donned a Picture of Dorian Gray like mask to mask the real horror they always have been - always will be; until their “Savior” - he who they believed was the anointed one, who was finally going to lead them into the hellscape of their promised land and give them full, unbridled power to do what they wanted, whenever they wanted to whomever they wanted.

    Unfortunately, a wee bit of a little problem developed on the way to that Marxist wet dream - a little thing called “reality” raised its inconvenient, contrarian head and intruded

    • in the form of someone who - didn’t have to help us or the country; who was living and could have continued to "live the life of Riley"

    • a man who loves this country, and who has rallied all of us who similarly love it totally and completely, and what did they discover? Much to their dismay, chagrin and horror?

    “Surprise, surprise, surprise” they had removed their mask a tad too soon, revealed themselves for the rabid animal monsters they have always been and also?

    They had marched across that proverbial one bridge too far, and now can’t turn back.

    The past four years have been difficult, but the good part is that it did smoke the rats out into the open and now that they have clearly identified themselves - we can go after them one by one and piece by piece dismantled them and their plans.

  4. One thing about the Age of Talk-Back. There are memes all over X / Twitter making fun of the Literally Hitler narrative, such as photos of Trump with black leaders, including Rosa Parks.

    I feel sorry for the old croaks of the Age of Mass Media. Bless their hearts.

  5. Alinsky tactics worked when fewer people knew what they were. But during the benighted reign of Saint Barry and the end of the stranglehold on information by the mainstream media, people in general got a crash course in what those strategies involved and began to recognize them for what they were/are.

    Added to that is the general fatigue with all the hyperbolic hysteria…Trump served a term, the world didn’t end, nobody got locked up ( more’s the pity 'cause some of them should have been) and absolutely none of the dire predictions came about. You can only gaslight 80% of the population for so long before they become wise to you – the other 20% are hopeless Kool aid drinkers that will believe you forever if it allows them to reject a reality that they don’t like.

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