Kamala Harris is awful
Mises Wire | Mises Institute
July 24, 2024

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Because of her professional background, failed 2020 campaign, and tenure as Biden’s vice president, we can already be certain that a Kamala Harris presidency would be awful.

Harris represents not merely a continuation of the Obama-Clinton-Biden doctrine of progressive interventionism at home and abroad but an acceleration.

As vice president, she remained closely aligned with Biden on all of the worst things he’s done. She had a hand in his repressive response to the pandemic, championed his effort to expand the federal government’s industrial policy, and pushed him to attempt his illegal, regressive student loan forgiveness plan.

Early in Biden’s term, he put Harris in charge of the southern border, which anyone — regardless of where they fall on the topic of mass immigration — has to admit descended into utter chaos.

Harris’ foreign policy ambitions are nearly indistinguishable from Biden’s when it comes to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as the U.S.’s provocative militarization in the Pacific, which puts us at risk of war with China and North Korea.

And when Harris differs from Biden, she’s always on the worse side.

In the 2020 campaign and early in her term as vice president, Harris did not support the bipartisan effort to end the war in Afghanistan. While Biden and his team handled the actual withdrawal terribly, leaving was the right move. The fact that Harris wanted to continue pouring our money into that failed state-building project speaks volumes about her.