To hear Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, talk, you’d think she hadn’t been the vice president for nearly four years of the most disastrous administration in at least current U.S. history. And yet there she is, on the campaign trail, promising to fix this and that – as if she hadn’t been up to her ears in what she was promising to fix and fix. She can’t get away with it.
In a commentary for Fox News on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich laid out a uncomplicated formula for pressuring Harris – right up until Election Day. Gingrich started his editorial by referring to the last Democratic Party convention in Chicago 56 years ago in 1968.
In 1968, the Democratic Party’s deeply divided convention was surrounded by thousands of militant protesters against the Vietnam War. What was later described as a police riot ensued, with tear gas pouring from Grant Park into the convention center.
The American people watched on live television what was essentially a civil war within the Democratic Party. Richard Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate, was significantly closer to the presidency at the end of the week.
Nixon won the election.
“This year,” Newt wrote, “the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz team is hoping for a much quieter and more successful convention.”
Her topic is a negligible one, and has been covered in recent articles about the so-called “politics of joy.” The massive challenge for Vice President Harris and her team is that the “politics of joy” will be completely inappropriate for many Americans.
According to RealClear Politics, 65 percent of Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. Only 25 percent believe we are moving in the right direction. Considering Harris is currently vice president, that’s not a particularly encouraging result.
If your family budget is strained by the 20 percent price augment under the Joe Biden-Harris administration, you may not be cheerful.
If you have no hope of buying a home because it has become too pricey due to Biden and Harris’ policies, nothing will bring you joy.
If a loved one was killed in the catastrophic collapse in Afghanistan, you feel no joy.
If your community is being overrun by illegal immigrants allowed into the country under the Biden-Harris open borders policy, you probably can’t feel much joy.
If you are worried about the threat to Israel’s survival – and the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses and in the Democratic Party – you are not having much fun.
Considering Walz’s failure to deploy the National Guard during the 2020 Minnesota unrest – or Harris’ efforts to facilitate rescue the rioters – there is likely little joy.
In other words, if you are in the World of reality, Kamala’s “politics of joy” bite for you and your family.
At virtually every level of American life, the practical results of Harris and Walz’s “politics of joy” are angering Americans and killing their joy, Newt claimed. Add in nearly four years of Biden-Harris, and here we are.
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The former speaker suggested a uncomplicated way to hold Harris accountable for her past actions – and inactions. at the ballot box.
As you hear every up-to-date false promise and every nice-sounding agenda item, ask yourself two uncomplicated questions:
1. Why have these measures not been implemented in the last four years?
2. And why should we believe they would do it now?
These two questions will reveal how bogus and staged the entire Democratic Convention will be.
Bingo.
Harris was “the last person in the room” when Joe initiated his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Did she object to the way it was implemented? If not, why not?
Where was Harris as Biden continued to unleash Bidenomics on America, driving up gas prices, the cost of goods and services across the board, and ultimately ever-increasing food prices? Did she object? If not, why not?
And why should we believe her now – unless she promises “communist” price controls?
Gingrich cited Harris’s about-face on the fracking issue as a perfect example.
A good example of this is Harris’ brand up-to-date stance on fracking. She has always said she is against fracking. Now that she has to win Pennsylvania – which has two of the four largest natural gas fields in the world – she has suddenly softened her stance.
Which Harris do you believe: the aged radical from San Francisco who was always for the Green New Deal and against fracking, or the up-to-date vote-hungry candidate who tells you everything you need to hear to get your vote?
Newt suggested we all watch the Democratic National Convention when it begins in Chicago on Monday.
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago is worth watching for every American, if only because it is an exercise in exposing hypocrisy. You will learn how much more radical they are than anyone you know. You will see how much they are willing to lie to get your vote.
You will be able to decide for yourself whether the Democratic Convention represents a “politics of joy” – or the same aged left-wing nonsense that is being covered up by the propaganda media.
I’ll try, Newt – but I can’t promise anything.
