Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Kamala Harris’s effort to depict herself as a candidate of safe but forward-looking change
(as opposed to the decidedly unsafe and reactionary change represented
by Donald Trump) has unsurprisingly spurred a host of GOP attacks on a cherry-picked assortment
of unpopular or at least questionable-sounding policy positions from
her past, ranging from support for a single-payer health-care system and
sympathy for undocumented immigrants to opposition to fracking and to
aggressive policing tactics.
Is Chris Cillizza, formerly of CNN, WaPo, Meet the Depressed, and PMSNBC cherry-picking?
I mean, most of these lists are incomplete because Harris' has left a LONG trail demonstrating her extreme leftism in speeches, interviews, tweets, policy statements from 2019, et cetera, and it's a daunting task to list them all. Any list of them will show an editor's bias about what's important in the editor's opinion.
But the idea from James Carville endorsed by Kilgore that Harris can just say she learned in the White House that spending $800 billion over ten years in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act to reverse climate change was good enough when in 2019 she said it would take $1 trillion PER YEAR for ten years is just laughable.
LAUGHABLE.
That's hardly going to fly with the climate change left, let alone anyone else.
Ed Kilgore's just pretending that isn't the case. He's an enabler of Harris' silence in the face of the flip-flops.
