'Kamala’s Inane Talking Points'

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'Only two talking points matter: Which candidate’s past record and
current agenda best appeal to voters? And which candidate seems the most
authentic and genuine?

By Victor Davis Hanson

October 24, 2024
As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic
National Committee/Harris Campaign/mainstream media fusion talking
points become even more absurd.

Claiming that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not
work—especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential
candidate Tim Walz and would-be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Nor was the next Harris meme convincing that the frenetic and non-stop
Trump was somehow “exhausted,” “senile,” and “confused.” Voters know the
workdays of the younger Harris are usually far shorter—or sometimes not
workdays at all.

But Harris also falsely claimed the physically and mentally challenged
Biden was, in her words, “absolutely authoritative” and “very bold and
vibrant.”

Now Harris asserts that Trump is a “fascist,” a “dictator,” and “unfit”
for office. But this new talking point will also not stop the Harris
campaign’s hemorrhaging—and for a variety of reasons.

First, voters see the election as a conflict of two absolutely
antithetical visions.

On the one hand, is the prior Trump 2017-20 concrete record: border
security, no major wars abroad, calm in the Middle East, a deterred
Russia, Iran, and China, low inflation, low interest rates, lower crime,
lower taxes, strong deterrent military—and opposition to mandatory
electric vehicle mandates, biological males competing in women’s sports,
and the woke/DEI agenda.

On the other hand, is the Biden-Harris 2021-2024 record: the unchecked
entry of 12-20 million illegal aliens and a destroyed border. People
still struggle under Biden-Harris’s earlier hyperinflation and high
interest rates. The horrific regional wars in Ukraine and the Middle
East continue. Biden-Harris embraces the unpopular DEI/Woke agenda.

Harris herself knows that the Biden-Harris years were a failure. That is
why she has shed almost all of their hard left-wing agendas—policies she
has embraced for much of her adult life.

So suddenly, in the last 90 or so days, Harris has completely flipped
and flopped.

Now she is for more of, not defunding, the police. She pivots for a
secure border, not 20 million illegal aliens pouring across it. Harris
brags about fossil fuel energy, not banning fracking, and for
increasing, not cutting, defense.

In fact, several endangered incumbent Democrat senators in swing states
are claiming more allegiance to Trump’s issues than identifying with
Harris and her unpopular record as vice president.

Voters likely conclude that if Trump doubles down on his record, while
even Harris and many senators temporarily piggyback on it, then it must
be more effective and popular than Harris’s own.

Second, Harris now claims Trump is a fascist and insurrectionist.

But mouthing ad nausaem “January 6th” no longer persuades voters that
Trump is a danger to anyone. They recall that Harris bragged of the far
more violent demonstrations of 2020—35 killed, $2 billion in damage,
1,500 law enforcement officers injured, 14,000 arrested—that the unrest
would not and “should not” stop, while drumming up support to bail out
jailed violent protestors.

Nor does the slur that Trump is a fascist resonate. The Obama and
Biden-Harris administrations weaponized the CIA and FBI to interfere in
the 2016 and 2020 elections by peddling the fake Steele dossier and
suppressing all the embarrassing news about Hunter Biden’s incriminating
laptop.

Trump certainly did not coordinate, as Biden did, with local, state, and
federal prosecutors to wage lawfare prosecutions to destroy his
political opponents. He did not use the FBI to partner with social media
to suppress the news.

Neither Trump nor his supporters tried to remove Biden from state
ballots.

The Republican House majority did not impeach Biden twice despite the
Biden family’s corruption and Joe Biden’s unlawful, decades-long removal
of classified papers to several insecure private residences.

Trump and the Republicans never coercively removed the party’s
primary-winning nominee. They did not nullify the will of 14 million
primary voters. And in backroom fashion, they did not anoint a candidate
who had never entered a single primary in her life.

Nor did Trump support packing the Supreme Court. He does not seek
unconstitutional means of destroying the Electoral College. He is not
demanding an end to the Senate filibuster or the creation of two new
states to obtain four partisan senate seats.

Third, as for Trump being “unfit” and lacking “decorum,” it depends on
what were the Biden-Harris standards?

Having a trans activist reveal his breasts on camera at a White House
“pride party?”

Biden’s reportedly calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a
f—ing idiot” and “son of a b—ch?” Bragging about locking Trump up, while
waging lawfare against him?

Unleashing son Hunter Biden with impunity to shake down foreign
governments?

The election will not be decided on these empty talking points or fake
media-generated narratives.

Instead, only two criteria matter: Which candidate’s past record and
current agenda best appeal to voters? And which candidate seems the most
authentic and genuine?'