AS Kamala Harris secures the Democratic party nomination who is she, and given who she’s running against does it even matter? We investigate:
A woman
Harris is a woman, which is good news for her 168 million fellow American women and their reproductive health. However no woman has ever become president and the last one who tried failed so badly that Donald Trump became president. As a precedent, this is bad.
Multi-racial
Barack Obama was merely black. Harris is not just black but Indian, locking up the votes of two of the world’s most populous ethnicities. Unfortunately there are a great many white men in the US who view anyone but white men as untrustworthy and holding unfair grudges about, say, slavery. Her complexion will not please them.
A steadfast fighter for law and order
The former attorney general of California aggressively pursued criminals and locked up thousands. Usually that would be a positive because criminals are unpopular. Regrettably, since former president Trump was charged with numerous crimes and convicted of some, his supporters believe crime is great and should be penalty-free.
Vice-president during an economic turnaround
Bold economic policies and investment in green tech has turned the US economy around, making it the envy of the West. Harris can take full credit for her part in that over the last four years. Such a shame half the country no longer gives a f**k and would rather rabidly back a convicted loser who tried to overthrow democracy and failed.
Brat
‘Kamala IS brat’ according to Charli XCX, the pop star who has released a good album after only seven previous tries. But what is ‘brat’? An internet meme. And who remembers Hillary Clinton doing the Mannequin Challenge then getting her arse properly kicked in the election? Pissing around with viral bollocks is a negative.
Not Donald Trump
Harris’s most important characteristic, which will attract millions of voters who otherwise disagree with everything she stands for, is not being Donald Trump. Capable of rational thought and with a political vision for her country, she is his opposite. But through no merits of his own he heroically survived being shot so he’ll win.
