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Why Americans Can Expect and Republicans Should Prepare for President Kamala Harris Before 2024

July 9, 2021       Vol. XIV, No. 10       7:13 am

Democrats cannot risk another Hillary Clinton disaster

Vice President Kamala Harris has made many rookie mistakes this year, most recently her mismanagement of President Biden’s already-mismanaged immigration crisis at the border with Mexico, all of which is immaterial to the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that the vice president shall become president if the incumbent resigns, which is becoming increasingly likely.

There are numerous reasons that may prompt President Biden to resign during his first term, like a major health issue, a smoking gun scandal tied to Hunter Biden’s record of exploiting his influential father for foreign quid pro quo business deals, or perhaps a GOP wave election year in 2022 giving Republicans control of Congress and effectively crippling the Biden Administration’s agenda.

However, the #1 reason President Biden is likely to resign during his first term is this: Democrats cannot risk a 2024 repeat of Hillary Clinton’s disastrous 2016 presidential campaign when the aspirational opportunity of a liberal woman of color in the Oval Office is at stake.

What if Kamala Harris turns out to be a flawed nominee like Clinton, a privileged insider whose arrogance of invulnerability affects strategic mistakes and the loss of an eminently winnable contest?

Democrats can’t take that risk.

What if Joe Biden, who will be 82 years old in 2024, is not physically or mentally strong enough to compete in the brutal cage fight that presidential politics has become?

Democrats can’t take that risk. The stakes are too high; the opportunity too great.

Kamala Harris checks all the right boxes

Kamala Harris checks all the right boxes for 21^st Century culturally diverse America: female, the daughter of an Afro-Jamaican immigrant father who taught economics at Stanford; the daughter of an Asian Indian immigrant mother, a career oncologist who raised her two daughters to be “confident, proud Black women,” says Harris in her 2019 book, The Truths We Hold.

Harris writes that her mother, who died of cancer in 2009, was “the most important person in my life.” So, what was her mother’s influence? According to the LA Times, it was that of the Brahmins, India’s “privileged elite” in the ancient Hindu caste system. The crème de la crème. The landowners. The credentialed professionals in law, medicine and engineering. Those who for centuries have set the highest standards of discipline and educational attainment for their children.

It would surprise no one in India’s Brahmin community that Kamala Harris is the highest-ranking female elected official in US history. Nor would they be surprised that while earning her undergraduate degree in political science and economics at Howard University, Harris chaired the economics society and led the debate team. That she went on to earn a law degree from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law.

It would surprise no one at the 23^rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland, California, where Harris she says she learned to “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,” that she won five political campaigns in California, including DA of San Francisco, Attorney General of California in both 2010 and 2014, US Senator from California in 2016, and Vice President of the United States in 2020.

So, if I’m right and President Biden does hand over the keys to the Oval Office before the end of his first term, what can we expect from a President Harris administration?

What would be the priorities of a President Kamala Harris?

First and foremost, a Harris Presidency would be focused on what she sees as social and economic injustices that have reached the boiling point, especially the disparities between rich and poor Americans in the areas of income, healthcare, education, housing and criminal justice. “The goal of economic growth has to be to grow the pie. But if all that’s left for workers are the crumbs, what kind of economy are we really building?” Harris says in her book.

Equal rights and opportunities for women and minorities, including new immigrants, will be paramount in a Harris Administration. Equality and diversity will be more than political talking points, they will be the prisms through which a Harris administration views all public and private entities.

Look for an estrangement between the White House and much of corporate America similar to what we saw during the Obama Administration. “We must speak truth about greedy, predatory corporations that have turned deregulation, financial speculation, and climate denialism into creed,” writes Harris.

Harris believes that President Ronald Reagan ushered in “a new era of selfishness and greed. Corporate profits have soared, but American workers haven’t gotten a meaningful raise in 40 years.” A champion of unions, Harris argues, “We need a rebirth of organized labor in America.”

The goal of identity politics in today’s Democratic Party is to end centuries of white male domination of power in Washington. Towards that end, a Biden presidency is politically expendable; a Kamala Harris presidency is not.

Americans can expect and Republicans should prepare for President Kamala Harris before 2024.

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