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The Brat Energy Is Gone

When Kamala Harris first jumped into the 2024 race, the joy was palpable.

Every major Democrat leapt to celebrate. The legacy media uncorked the Champagne. Rank-and-file Democratic voters had a pep in their step. After all, the Democratic Party had pulled off an unprecedented feat: After rigging the Democratic primaries to avoid any serious opposition to ailing incumbent Joe Biden, they had, without a single vote, removed his nomination and handed it to Biden’s younger, more diverse vice president.

What could go wrong?

The theory was simple: The problem with Biden’s campaign was Biden. It wasn’t the issues. It wasn’t Americans’ view of the country more broadly. It was just the doddering old man wandering around stages and speaking mushmouth. Put him out of his misery like Old Yeller, the theory went, and Democrats could insert literally anyone and beat the much-despised Donald Trump.

For a few weeks, it seemed they might be right.

Harris soared in the polls; suddenly, where Trump had led by anywhere between three and five points nationally, she was ahead by a similar margin. In the swing states, where Biden had fallen far behind, Harris had leapt to small but measurable leads.

The Kamalamentum was real.

And then, suddenly, it faded away.

What happened?

The answer is simple: The American people realized that Kamala Harris is, after all, Kamala Harris. She’s still the awkward, empty, incoherent mess she was when she ran for president in 2019. She doesn’t know how to answer basic questions about her own policies; worse, she doesn’t even know her own policies. She begins to fritz out like Quaid’s fat lady suit in “Total Recall” when asked anything beyond the absolutely facile. Her sentences resemble MC Escher illusions: verbal staircases that ought to ascend to a fixed point, but instead, defying the laws of reason, curve back on themselves to end where they began. Her platitudinous slogans are matched in the magnitude of their vacuity only by the extraordinarily ersatz enthusiasm with which she utters them. All the off-putting tics — the random laughter, the strange hand motions, the nasal smugness as she recites entirely obvious tautologies — they’ve all reappeared with a vengeance.

In short, she’s terrible.

And she was always terrible.

Biden himself had worried about this reality. There was a reason Harris dropped out of the 2020 race earlier than any other major candidate. There was a reason she was the most unpopular vice president in modern American history.

And there’s a reason she’s collapsing now.

And so she’s left with one strategy: bribery. She’s pledging new goodies, day after day, directed at specific voter blocs. This week, after deploying Barack Obama to lecture young Black men didn’t jog her support levels, she proposed a bevy of obviously unconstitutional giveaways, including a million loans of $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs, fully forgivable. This followed her pledge to hand a $25,000 homebuyer grant to first-time homebuyers, with heavier grants to “first-generation homeowners” — a giveaway again specifically targeted at minority audiences.

This is unlikely to work. After all, big promises rarely materialize in big results. She’d require Congressional help to achieve any of this — and as she made clear to CBS News’ Bill Whitaker, she literally has no idea what to do if Congress refuses.

And so Kamala Harris is on the ropes. The joy is gone. The sugar high has worn off. Kamala, it turns out, is still Kamala. And that’s devastating news for a Democratic Party that had hoped to move forward, unburdened by what has been.

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Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro's new collection, "Facts and Furious: The Facts About America and Why They Make Leftists Furious," is available now. Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.

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  1. If these two socialist/communist clowns get elected it will be the final nail in the coffin of our Democrat induced national suicide. Can you imagine four more years of a completely open border that has already destroyed the United States as a sovereign nation and let in at least 600,000 known criminals, 12-14 million poor, unvetted and unvaccinated illegals and hundreds of thousands of illegals from countries that hate us. Then throw in Kamala’s idiotic policy ideas like communist style price controls or a tax on unrealized capital gains which would absolutely crush investment and crash the stock market. Or a $25,000 government gift to every first time home buyer. First, it’s illegal because it won’t go to every homebuyer and secondly, it would just increase the price of every home sold in America by $25,000. And now she’s open to “studying” reparations?! The ultimate “free stuff” pandering to blacks for an inane idea that will never happen. Of course they are both all for unlimited abortion (even up until the moment of birth) and chemically castrating or permanently physically mutilating children in the name of “gender affirmation”.

    Then there would be four more years of their foreign policy debacles with hundreds of billions more for a never ending and unwinnable war in Ukraine that just might start WWIII. Or that world war might start in the middle east where they snub our strongest ally Israel and send tens of billions to Iran who is the biggest state sponsor of Hamas and terrorists around the world. Or the almost inevitable terrorist attack here from the hundreds, if not thousands of known terrorists that have come into the country across that completely open border. It’s your choice, America. But choose wisely, for if you choose Harris/Walz it will probably be your last chance to have a choice…….

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