Ready The Clown Car: The First Batch of Democrats Are Ready To Announce Their 2020 Bids

So, here they go, going all-in with the incendiary racial name calling and invective, led by one of their leading race agitators, Kamala Harrris. Because Democrats are all about civility and decorum, after all. {sarcasm}

Kamala Harris says she believes Trump is a racist

Kamala Harris said in an interview published Tuesday that she believes Trump is a racist, offering one of the most blunt assessments of the president from the 2020 Democratic field. When asked by The Root's Terrell Starr if she believes Trump to be a racist, the California senator responded directly: “I do. Yes. Yes.”

Harris' comments were more stark than some of her fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls. Sen. Cory Booker was far more cautious earlier this month when asked the same question, saying, "I don't know the heart of anybody. I leave that to the Lord." Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, meanwhile, has called Trump's immigration policies "racist," and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro has said Trump has "contributed to more racial strife."
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What a surprise, Kamala Harris going straight to the bottom. Well, we see what her campaign is going to be about.

 

Michael Barone observes that the Democrats are going out too far on the left-wing tree limb:

Democrats Are Getting Out on a Dangerously Left-Wing Limb

Democratic presidential candidates have been going out on potentially shaky left-wing limbs, including the Green New Deal sketched out by the exuberant freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Endorsers include putatively serious candidates such as Sens. Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

The idea is to ban net carbon emissions in just 10 years, which evidently means no gasoline-powered cars, no beef from methane-producing cattle and no passenger airplanes. Obamacare, passed nearly 10 years ago, is no longer enough for Democrats. In his 2016 campaign, Sanders called for "Medicare-for-all," and he and other declared candidates are echoing that this cycle.

Then there is the issue of reparations for descendants of slaves, urged without much visible effect by longtime Rep. John Conyers and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose widely praised best-seller argues that America today is just as racist as ever, and always will be. Polls show this unsurprisingly unpopular, but Harris, Warren and fellow candidate Rep. Julian Castro have signed on for "some form" of reparations.

Support for legal abortion has been a Democratic staple for years. But Democrats have recently moved left to pass laws allowing it up to nine months. They did so successfully in New York and unsuccessfully in Virginia, after Gov. Ralph Northam suggested it would apply after birth.

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These positions are flat out radical. If they wanted to be more radical than this, what could they realistically do to become more so? In fact, I would have imagined they never would have gone as far as this. Obama never did, that is for sure, at least not during his campaigns. But now these candidates are going all the way to the wall with these radical extreme hard left positions.

Don't get me wrong, I am delighted to see the Democrats finally coming out publically and admitting who they are and what they really stand for. It is just as an objective observer of this as a campaign strategy for the purpose of winning power in this country through the office of President of the United States, it looks like a rather huge loser of an agenda.

 

What a lie. He has not said anything that is actually racist. Also, it does not appear to me that he is a racist. Nobody ever thought he was prior to him announcing his candidacy for president. And at that very moment, the Democrat left and their partners in the media went totally berzerk and have continued that pattern to this very day.

His detractors have zoomed in on certain comments that he has made and then spun them as hard as they could, with no regard at all whatsoever for whether those recriminations were true and with a complete unwillingness to apply those hyper-aggressive standards to the people on their own "side". Then the usual race agitator types all rushed out to take turns screaming "racist," in their typical, race-obsessed, racist manner.

None of what you attribute to him is actually true. But it is clearly the deluded practice of many of his most hateful opponents to believe that if they repeat a lie often enough, with the usual suspects on television jumping in to join the lynch mob style frenzy, then in their eyes that converts a lie into the truth.

But it doesn't. What a bunch of unconscionable, relentless liars these people are.

Also, it appears to me that after the series of episodes we have witnessed going back to the Kavanaugh hearings, a great many people who would have formerly just lazily nodded along with these sorts of hatefully dishonest recriminations are on to this pattern of behavior now, and they will much more skeptical of this sort of behavior from now on.

 

His buy call on Beta is a head scratcher for me. But other than that, Trende looks like he is probably pretty close.

I am still taken aback by what an extreme radical hard left + racially charged platform Kamala Harris has come out with. I was earlier projecting her to be the nominee. Maybe she still will be, but if she wins the nomination on this platform, Trump is winning again for sure.

Also, I might want to sell on Biden too, but with Harris going off the rails right from the start, if not Joe, then who? It is currently looking like it has to be Joe Biden if they want to have any kind of a real chance in the general. So think I may have to go with Hold on Joe Biden, at least for the time being.

 

1. Harris, Bernie and Joe Biden were my three 'way too early' favorites. I think she led in one one-off poll at some point, but for the most part, it has been Biden and Bernie, with Kamala Harris in third. In fact, that is what the RCP poll average shows right now.

2. Harris is such a hot topic because she has plausible claim to more of the Democrat left's "Identity politics" check-marks than any other candidate. Wouldn't it be racist or something like that if she does not get the nomination? Just checking.

3. Let's look at the top three candidates in the RCP Poll average, which were also my top three from before there was a poll average for this race. If Bernie wins the nomination for the Democrats, like it or not, Trump wins. Kamala Harris seems to nearly be trying to outlfank Bernie from the left. Not really, but when you add in the racial stuff, she is shaping up to be the most aggressively radical far left, race-oriented candidate in US history, by far.

If Kamala was willing to moderate and lie about who she is and what she stands for the way Obama did - forget what the polls say - I think she might give Joe and Bernie a real run for their money. But she is not doing that and the Democrat establishment is already going after Bernie pretty openly with a view towards taking him out. Which leaves Joe Biden.

4. Your fourth remark was too unfocused for me to even try to respond to, or else I would have.

5. Good point about Klobuchar, especially if the rest of the field is going to self-destruct as fast as they can find a way, straight out of the gate. While I have taken the position all along that she would be the Democrat's best hope in the the general, I do not believe she is probably salty or provocative enough to catch on with a Democrat left base that seems committed to forming a lynch mob style frenzy on approximately a weekly basis. She is just not that type of candidate. And if she were to become that candidate, then the justifications for voting for her goes away. The Democrats do not need her to be another radical, howling and calling names type candidate. They have more than enough of those already.

6. Keep telling yourself that about Joe if you want. He does not look like he is really up for this if you ask me. And he is a gaff-o-matic if ever there was one. Also, he is known for being very 'handsy' with the ladies, so you can flush the woman's card completely goodbye if you want him to be your nominee. He might very well win the nomination. But the general, I would not be so confident if I were you. Remember Hillary 2016.

 

He knows very well that is not what Trump said, and yet he states what he knows is not true, without hesitation or remorse. That is of course routine and ordinary behavior among active supporters of the Democrat left these days.