Vice President Kamala Harris, still tethered politically and historically to Joe Biden, has once again offered a public performance that says far more about her own record than about the targets of her criticism.
Speaking at the Austrian World Summit, Harris delivered a series of remarks that, according to RedState, amounted to a textbook case of projection from a politician whose own tenure in power is riddled with the very abuses she now claims to oppose. The vice presidents comments were framed around the revelation by California Governor Gavin Newsom that he is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, a development that sent Harris into a familiar rhetorical spiral about supposed political persecution.
Harris, adopting a tone that undercut her own disclaimer, insisted she had long foreseen such developments under President Trump. I don't say I told you so, that's kind of obnoxious, she said in an obnoxious manner. I don't say that, but the reality is many of us predicted, and it didn't require much creative thought because he told us most of what we knew would happen, including that he would go after his political enemies using the Department of Justice.
The problem for Harris is that her outrage rings hollow in light of the Biden-Harris administrations own record of weaponizing federal power against its critics. This is the same administration that jailed mostly peaceful January 6th protestors, pursued pro-life grandmothers who prayed at abortion clinics, targeted Catholic churches through the DOJ, and unleashed the FBI on concerned parents at school board meetings by labeling them domestic terrorists.
It is also the administration that tried to tap the phone lines of political opponents and has worked relentlessly to jail President Trump in every manner conceivable. If one simply erases this recent history, Harris is not a hypocrite, but for Americans who lived through the last several years, her complaints about going after political enemies sound less like moral outrage and more like selective amnesia.
Meanwhile, as RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar has documented extensively, Newsom and his wife have their own extensive and legitimate history of corruption, making Harriss sudden concern over a DOJ investigation even more politically convenient. Rather than acknowledge any of this, Harris moved on to Part 2 of what can only be described as her projection parade, offering the moderator a sprawling, barely coherent indictment of Trumps presidency.
So I am not surprised that he may be using the Department of Justice to go after a political enemy in the current governor of California, and this is why I do believe this, upon many other examples of what is essentially, you're gonna ask me questions about the current president, I'm gonna be candid, what is essentially the most callous, corrupt, and incompetent presidential administration America's ever experienced, and for that reason, I have no question or doubt that we will win the midterms, and it will be a result of people of every background and political association who will contribute to that outcome.
Holy run-on sentence, Batman. The Word Salad Queen hasn't lost a step, and certainly has not gained one, depending on your vantage point.
Beyond the tortured syntax, the substance is even more astonishing: Harris actually accused President Trump of presiding over the most callous, corrupt, and incompetent presidential administration America's ever experienced. That charge only works if one pretends the period from January 20, 2021, to January 20, 2025, simply did not occur, and if one ignores inflation, border chaos, foreign policy debacles, and the systematic targeting of political dissent under Biden and Harris.
It is a classic case of pot, meet kettle, from a vice president who helped oversee an administration that conservatives view as the embodiment of callousness, corruption, and incompetence. Aside from all of that (and, as critics note, this is a short list), the Biden-Harris administration was totally competentif the metric is expanding federal power, punishing ideological opponents, and eroding traditional norms.
Perhaps this is more than mere projection and closer to a kind of political self-delusion, in which saying something often enough is supposed to erase the publics memory of what actually happened. Harris just delivered a masterclass in self-owning delusion: the very administration she helped lead stands as the gold standard for the abuses she now attributes to Trump, yet she lectures from a foreign stage as if her and Biden's record never existed.
Americans remember the last administration she served in, and they remember who used the machinery of government against ordinary citizens, parents, believers, and political rivals. And Kamala, hate to dash your future aspirations and all, they're going to remember again in 2028because, contrary to what the political class seems to believe, voters did not just fall out of a coconut tree.
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