By Tom Klocek

Many claim that it is impossible to pull oneself up by their own bootstraps, but that’s what the media and the Democrats want to think Kamala Harris is capable of. To begin with, the nation wouldn’t need to be rescued if Trump had been reelected. But to think that Harris, who on “The View” said she was right there with all of the significant decisions and wouldn’t have done anything different from Joe Biden, would be capable of righting the ship she was complicit in sinking is nonsense.

Harris dropped out of the 2020 presidential race because even then it was obvious that she was in no way prepared or capable of being president. Yet now we are to believe that she has had an epiphany and knows all of the right things to do (and could actually do them). And now Vogue magazine has characterized her as a heroine who answered the call to rescue the nation when Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. For me, I would rather rely on a Saint Bernard Alpine rescue dog that didn’t even grow up in a middle-class neighborhood to come to my rescue.

We watched her demonstrate her incompetence for almost four years and listened to her word salad attempts at making coherent statements, all while casting tiebreaking votes in the Senate that added to inflation and other woes the country is experiencing. Was she hit by lightning that suddenly gave her the ability to handle the task of running the country, bringing down inflation, and restoring our standing among the nations of the world?

Her considerable flip-flops on policy issues are almost as bad as her attempts at various accents in her public appearances.

Let’s look at just a few of the “successes” of this administration, which Harris admits she was an active participant in:

• Infrastructure: Built a whole eight out of 500 planned EV charging stations.
• Crisis management: Total failure of FEMA, both in preparation and execution.
• Fiscal: Bidenflation/Kamalanomics; $1.9 trillion deficit (despite claiming they would reduce it); fiscal irresponsibility on the part of federal agencies (e.g., FEMA redirecting funds to illegal immigrant issues); and loss of manufacturing jobs to other countries (jobs that Trump had brought back).
• Military readiness: Steady decline with several years of missed recruiting goals (by thousands).
• Foreign policy: Russian invasion of Ukraine; strengthening and emboldening of Iran and its surrogates (Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis), resulting in repeated attacks on shipping, naval vessels, and civilians and heavy terrorist attacks on Israel.
• Border: Total breakdown of the nation’s sovereignty at the border (Harris was the “Border Czar”).
• Violation of human rights: Abortion (life is the most basic of human rights), censorship and free speech violations, prosecution of people for their religious beliefs, and increasing restrictions on gun owners.
• And now the administration is actively undermining voter integrity.

Where is the humanity? They accuse Trump of having no humanity and try to equate him to Hitler, but this administration (Harris included) has repeatedly put illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. They even claim that Trump is into eugenics, which is odd, as they are such big supporters of abortion and Planned Parenthood, whose founder, Margaret Sanger, publicly stated that the goal of the American Birth Control League (forerunner of Planned Parenthood) was to rid the country of blacks.

The history of Planned Parenthood gets conveniently overlooked, as does other racist history of the Democrats (the Ku Klux Klan, opposition to racial equality legislation in 1964, etc.). They like to point to Republican proposals and label them “Jim Crow 2.0.”

It’s surprising that, over the years, blacks have traditionally supported Democrats. African Americans have always seemed to me to have a Christian religious foundation. And yet the Democrats are the ones who attack Christianity, have taken God out of their platform, and have targeted pro-lifers and Catholics specifically.

I remember when Barack Obama was president, I had a poster declaring him the leading gun salesman those years. Similarly, I read recently that gun sales were booming and that even Democrats were buying guns. Why is it that when Democrats are in power, gun sales go up? I also read that the FBI has revised its crime statistics for Biden-Harris — it’s up 4.5%, not down as the FBI previously reported. I wonder if that could be a factor.

Somehow, I don’t see all of this as a “New Way Forward.” More like, The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Four years ago, I knew people who were voting for Biden because “he wasn’t Trump.” How did that work out? (See above.) Now there are people who are trying to convince us to vote for Kamala (Biden 2.0) because “she isn’t Trump.” Isn’t that like the definition of insanity — repeating actions but expecting/hoping for a different result?