The Democrats, still dead drunk and sporting their beer goggles, are all warm and fuzzy and slow-dancing with Kamala Harris.

But the morning after looms.

To be fair, it must be an exhilarating feeling to have escaped the bad breath and foul clutches of 81-year-old Joe Biden for the younger, livelier Bay Area progressive of Jamaican-Indian descent who grew up in Canada and whose ancestors were slaveowners. But they’ll wake up soon enough. And when they do, they’ll realize that Kamala Harris is no longer “by far, the best-looking attorney general” in the nation, as Barack Obama lustfully dubbed her back in 2013.

Indeed, Harris is no longer the same pretty-faced protégé of Willie Brown, no longer the same confoundee of the California bar exam, no longer the same hapless 2020 presidential candidate who was polling in single digits and suspended her campaign before so much as a single Iowan or New Hampshirite had a chance to reject her. (Coincidentally, Harris and I collected the exact same number of delegates in the 2020 primary.)

Instead, she’s now a known quantity. And what the American people have come to know about Kamala Harris, they have also come to dislike.

This, after all, is our nation’s border czar, having been named as much by Joe Biden during the early stages of our border disaster, when there was still time to do something about it. Since then, though, the veep who vowed to “discourage illegal migration” and “enforce our laws and secure our border” has failed miserably. Indeed, her soporific search for “root causes” allowed an Ohio’s worth of illegal immigrants — most of them male, many of them military age, and an unknown number of them thugs, rapists, and murdering dogs — into our country.

Among her lesser czardoms, Harris has also overseen our nation’s efforts to harness Artificial Intelligence — you know, the technology that no less an expert than Elon Musk has referred to as “potentially more dangerous than nukes.”

Lucky for us, Harris has mostly just stood there and not done something.

As for alienating the Democrats’ base, it’s hard to beat Harris’s efforts on that front,. Black voters are keenly aware of how, during her tenure as California’s attorney general, she enthusiastically locked up so many black drug offenders — including many for smoking dope when she herself admits to having smoked it.

Perhaps there’s a reason why Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed her, and why Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries haven’t endorsed her. Perhaps they realize that she’s the emptiest of empty pantsuits, and they’re quietly hoping that their party will come to its senses between now and the convention. (UPDATE: This afternoon, both Schumer and Jeffries announced that they’re endorsing Harris.)

As for her rhetoric, she’s shown herself to be remarkably tone-deaf and dumb. “JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” she said of Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. To this, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, herself a military veteran, fired back: “J.D. Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country. Was Kamala Harris ready to sacrifice her life for our country? Of course not. Once again, Kamala exposes her hypocrisy.”

On the flip side, most Democrats across the country have fallen dutifully in line, with more than two dozen state delegations having endorsed Harris — including that treasure trove of delegates in her home state of California — which gives her more than enough delegates for a first-ballot win at next month’s Democratic National Convention. On top of that, in the 24 hours since she received Joe Biden’s endorsement, Kackling Kamala has somehow raised $81 million.

None of this is surprising. Remember: They have to convince a majority of the American people that Kamala Harris isn’t who we think she is.

On Monday, independent journalist Bari Weiss penned a pieced titled “The Era of the Noble Lie.” She writes:

The reason there is no Democratic presidential nominee right now — 27 days before the party’s convention in Chicago begins — is because of a lie. The reason the Democrats are going to scramble to whip a majority of their 3936 delegates into line behind Vice President Kamala Harris — the reason the most basic elements of the Democratic (and democratic) process are being so dramatically challenged — is because of the lie that everyone around Joe Biden told themselves and then told the public.

But if the biggest, “noblest” lie of all is the lie that Joe Biden has been fit for office since his election in 2020, a not-too-distant second is the lie that Kamala Harris is a suitable candidate for the American presidency.