The unbearable smugness of Kamala

She’s smarter and happier than you and thinks that’s enough

Vice President Kamala Harris was so thoroughly prepped for her September 10, 2024, debate against ill-prepared former President Donald Trump, it is difficult to imagine a better outcome for her.

Within the Democrat friendly confines of ABC’s studio inside the august sounding National Constitution Center in historic Philadelphia, Ms. Harris was brightly lit for the cameras while wearing an offsetting “signature black power suit” and subtle cosmetics “chosen to do the job” rather than distract, per Elle’s instant fashion analysis. Media pundits immediately declared that she had won on both style and coherence.

Trump looked and sounded as exhausted, harried and angry as Harris and her handlers hoped he would. He was also relentlessly fact checked by the self important moderators in real time, while she was not.

There were no uncomfortable questions about Harris’s role in the coordinated two year cover up of President Joe Biden’s decline and the subsequent palace coup that brought her the nomination without the trouble of facing 15 million primary voters. Nor were there probing questions about her contradictory past positions, about a wave of unchecked immigration from the Southern border, about the Biden-Harris administration’s authoritarian vaccine mandates, which Ms. Harris has carried into her campaign with Covid vaxx mandates for employees, about wars raging in the Middle East and Europe as the U.S. prepares to escalate Ukrainian proxy attacks inside nuclear armed Russia.

After the debate, Ms. Harris spoke to a group of supporters to tell them it had been a “good night,” but that hard work lies ahead because “the race is tight.” This election, she assured them, was a choice between “a new way forward” and the bitter divisiveness of the past embodied by Mr. Trump, as if she had not been in office the past four years.

The debate showed Trump at his worst. Several national polls have already swung in Harris’s favor! Yet Harris’s description of the race as “tight” is also correct, and she is redoubling her efforts to take the fight to Trump.