In last night’s debate, Kamala Harris rightly insisted that much of the country is exhausted by and ready to move on from Trump. But we deserve to move on to something better and more substantive than what Harris had to offer.
One of the strangest moments of last night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump came when Trump brought up Harris’s father, a well-respected left-wing economist. In reality, Donald Harris seems to have a strained-at-best relationship with his daughter, due at least in part to their profound political differences. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, Professor Harris publicly criticized Kamala for making cheap appeals based on “identity politics.”
In Trump’s imagination, though, father and daughter see eye to eye: “Everybody knows she’s a Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics. And he taught her well.”
He also portrayed her as deeply sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians killed, maimed, or displaced from their homes by the Israeli military. And at the end of the debate, he accused her of wanting to give every American free “government health care.” (The horror!)
As hard as this is to remember, it’s only been two and a half months since the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. That evening was so catastrophic for the rapidly declining president that he had to drop out of the race.
Trump’s performances at the two debates were indistinguishable. In both cases, his instinct over and over again was to pivot to hysterical xenophobia about the alleged “invasion” of immigrants and refugees, even when answering questions that had nothing to do with immigration. In both cases, he bizarrely accused the Biden/Harris administration…
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Auteur: Ben Burgis
