Kamala Harris, Crayon Candidate
We have to talk about Kamala Harris.
After I wrote about why Tim Walz is weird, many asked me to analyse Harris in the same way. This turns out to be a tall order. To begin with, Harris is a much more credible performer than Walz. She is merely an actor playing the part of a politician and not – like Walz – some kind of confused AI automaton aping the mannerisms and rhetoric of other actors playing the parts of politicians. To that comes the fact that most of Harris’s appearances have been highly scripted. She’s benefited from sympathetic interviewers, and in the last presidential debate, the moderators and even Donald Trump mostly failed to knock her off script. It’s no good merely to study lines that other people have written.
Recently, though, the clouds have parted. The Harris campaign, worried about narrowing polls, have scheduled various conversational interviews, including one with a “television personality and comedian” who goes by the name of the first Frankish emperor and who also calls himself God. Amazingly, there is some worthwhile material in that appearance, but it’s sparse. Our god almost never follows up on his challenges and the informal setting allows Harris to just talk and talk and talk. Harris, you’ve surely noticed, really likes to talk; she
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