Tucker on Kamala

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Something about Kamala Harris’s concession speech felt off.

It wasn’t her language; the vice president said roughly what you’d expect of someone in her position. It was the vibe.

The media billed the address as the second coming of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 speech after her electoral defeat, but the two spectacles were completely dissimilar. As a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Clinton carried an aura that at least felt grand, leading most listeners, even the former Democrat candidate’s detractors, to conclude that she would at a minimum remain somewhat pertinent in America’s public discourse. 

The same cannot be said for the vice president.

No one had ever heard of Harris until 2018 when she became an establishment darling by harassing Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. The then-senator’s attempt to capitalize on her newfound stardom fell flat, however, when her subsequent presidential campaign failed so miserably that she ran out of money and dropped out before the first primary.

Then, despite being the past target of Harris’s thinly veiled racism allegations, Joe Biden tapped the Californian as his running mate because, as Biden repeatedly said, he wanted “a woman to be vice president.”

A qualified woman? A woman who would be an effective president? No. Just “a woman.”

Next, Harris’s vice presidency went as one would expect for any affirmative action hire thrust into a position for which she was deeply unprepared: Disastrously. Harris oversaw the federal government’s biggest dereliction of duty in history at the southern border, unpromptedly baited Russia into invading Ukraine, and perpetually humiliated herself with mind-numbing media appearances that portrayed her as a babbling and incoherent halfwit.

Kamala’s performance as vice president made it abundantly clear that she was not destined for a promotion to the Oval Office, and despite her party’s 100-day push to brainwash the country into believing otherwise, she will not receive one. 

She’ll also no longer receive media inquiries, celebrity treatment, or any attention when she weighs in on the country’s biggest issues. No one will care.

With Harris’s impromptu presidential bid over, some Democrats will be surprised to see how quickly she reverts to inconsequential obscurity. They shouldn’t be. Harris isn’t suddenly returning to being irrelevant. She was never really relevant in the first place.

Tucker Commentary

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Commentary 
Media propagandists are playing their favorite hits, blaming Donald Trump’s dominant electoral victory on racism, sexism, xenophobia, general immorality, and anything else that deflects blame away from the real cause: The establishment’s ineptitude. 

America is not a bigoted nation. If it were, its voters never would have sent a Black politician with the middle name “Hussein” to the White House. It is, however, a country that expects its representatives to exalt their constituents, not abhor them, and always act in their interests. The Democrat Party has failed on both fronts.

Leaders with the highest regard for their citizens would not have allowed the last four years to unfold the way they did.

They wouldn’t have allowed the American dream to become cripplingly unaffordable, standing idly by as something as fundamental as homeownership became a fantasy for the country’s next generation. And they certainly wouldn’t have done it while demanding those same young Americans who can hardly afford groceries cough up tens of billions of dollars to fund the D.C. neocons’ latest murderous war projects.

They wouldn’t have allowed our country to become entangled in those potentially extinction-level desultory conflicts in the first place, disregarding U.S. national interests as distantly unimportant when compared to the sacred needs of “ally” proxy nations most Americans can’t find on a map. 

They wouldn’t even consider disregarding their own national security laws, illegally parading millions of unassimilated, uncultured, and unvetted foreign nationals across our border in the name of flooding the electorate with obedient ballot casters and robbing the nation’s actual voters of their rightful electoral influence.

And after putting the public through all that, four years of economic hardship, a government indifferent towards its own laws, and dangerous, backward leadership, Democrats built their closing pitch around the idea that voters who didn’t want more of their futile program are “garbage.” For many, that was the last straw that pushed their support to the other side.

2016 taught us that the establishment is incredibly steadfast in its refusal to look in the mirror and accept blame for its obvious deficiencies. It’s why they clung to the Russia hoax for so long, and it’s why they’ve governed as they have over the last presidential term.

Trump’s reelection is their punishment.