OPINION:
Chinks in the armor, cracks in the dam — call it what you will, but Vice President Kamala Harris’ whirlwind ascent into the political stratosphere may be showing its first signs of losing steam (“Harris buries her ‘clean energy’ agenda while Trump goes big on fossil fuels,” web, Sept. 9).
Here is a person who was worse than a nobody — a liability — even when President Biden was running for reelection. Suddenly she rose from shunned obscurity to the best thing since sliced bread? She went from trailing Mr. Biden (who was himself trailing former President Donald Trump) to being ahead of Mr. Trump. How does something like that happen in any environment that is not artificially sustained? Artificially sustained is precisely what Ms. Harris is.
Ms. Harris represents the last hope for the Democrats, who were only weeks ago lamenting Mr. Biden’s dismal chances against Mr. Trump, and they’ve made the most of it because they had no choice. The party may soon be coming to an end. As more and more independent voters like me see that Ms. Harris is little more than a tangle of contradictory policies that have yet to be clearly articulated and were conceived with the notion of making everyone happy, it will be shown that Ms. Harris has ignored the fact that nobody can make everybody happy all the time.
In the process, the Democrats will also show us how a candidate can be eaten alive by her own contradictions. No house can stand for long against itself.
ARTHUR SAGINIAN
Santa Clarita, California
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