The Contrarian: Kamala Harris was right about everything

[Celerity]

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-was-right-about-everything



As we approach the one-year mark of the presidential election that gave us whatever all of this madness is, it is even clearer that Vice President Kamala Harris was right about pretty much everything. But she’s a woman. And Black and Indian. And allegedly has a funny laugh. So here we are.

In the mere 107 days she had to make her case, Madam Vice President told us, again and again, exactly what Donald Trump would do were he to be elected president again. And she wasn’t being philosophical—usually, she was using his own words, and frequently she was giving voice to some of the myriad racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, un-American goals spelled out in Project 2025.

She told us his tariffs would be a “sales tax” on households, which is true in effect. But more pointedly, she said in September 2024: “He’s just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues. And one must be serious and have a plan — and a real plan that’s not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally, but actually putting the thought into what will be the return on the investment; what will be the economic impact on everyday people.”

Harris was right. Trump’s approach to tariffs can at best be described as scattershot. At his absurd “liberation day” event, he unveiled the “reciprocal” duties he was imposing on a number of countries—and the incredibly remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are not only not sovereign nations, but they are inhabited by penguins and penguins only.

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