Yes, that’s the Fourth of July tweet from poor, deluded Kamala Harris. Since I’ve posted on several examples of Trump Derangement today (the ridiculous Indian bridge is the one exception, but I try to avoid politics, I really do), I feel like Harris’ statement deserves a little attention. Like Ken White, she just assumes everyone sees through the same jaundiced eyes and knows why “things” are really, really terrible, but she doesn’t give any specifics. That strategy is so much safer than saying, “It’s really terrible that we crunched Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities, it’s so horrible that criminal illegal aliens are being deported, it’s just outrageous the news outlets that try to rig our elections and that the universities that discriminate against men, whites, and Jews* are being held to account.’

Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, inflation has slowed, DEI is fading away, sanctuary cities are finally being confronted, and Congress passed a budget. The male swimmer who cheated female swimmers out of records and titles has even been rebuked. What’s “hard,” Kamala? Hard for whom?

And what ideals is she talking about? To repurpose her own infamous indignant quote her, “How dare she?” She represented an administration and led a party that ran roughshod over “American ideals” like no other. A fake President. Criminalizing politics. An appointed Presidential candidate who never faced a primary challenger. Refusal to enforce the nation’s laws. An administration built on demographic bias instead of merit.

The amazing thing is that anyone would care what Kamala Harris says, thinks, or wants at this point. She really seems to think she has a career in politics. She’s like the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” still issuing challenges and bravado despite having lost his arms and legs.

Just not as funny.

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*Note: Harvard’s alumni magazine this month congratulates the Class of 2025 on its back page, featuring a photo of a white, maybe mixed-race female grad, a Hispanic female grad, and an Asian male, all smiling away.

David Wallace-Wells, described as “the best-selling science writer and essayist” for the New York Times who “explores climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it” wrote an essay called “Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem.” That’s interesting: what “regression on gender”? Unfortunately, the writer was incapable of making whatever point he wanted to make without making his biases so obvious and obnoxious that I didn’t finish reading.

I wonder if someone like me was expected to.

I’m not going to fisk the whole thing, just as far as I read before deciding that I didn’t care what David Wallace-Wells thinks…about anything, really. Here we go…

“When Donald Trump stormed into the White House in 2016…”

“Stormed.” He walked into the White House after being elected just like every other President who didn’t inherit the office. Nice of the author to flag his bias and animus in the fourth word.

“….horrified Americans debated, almost endlessly, whether the shocking result was an expression of widespread racism (backlash to a Black president resulting in the election of a birther) or economic anxiety (the industrial Midwest especially feeling abandoned by globalization and the China shock).”

Note that the Americans who voted for Trump aren’t “Americans” to Wallace-Wells. The people who attributed Trump’s election to racism are the same lazy, demonizing, angry progressives who attribute all of their defeats (and failures) to racism (or sexism). Obama was a weak, divisive, arrogant and subtly racist President, and any backlash against him was entirely justified.

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