Aside from Vice President Kamala Harris’s weekly guffaws and incomprehensible blabber, her biggest weakness may be her lack of expertise in anything related to her job description as vice president of the United States of America.
She is a frequent target for amusing commentary in the Onion, a well-known political satire site. One headline in particular mocked her lack of substantive policy work including “White House Urges Kamala To Sit At Computer All Day In Case Emails Come Through.”
Another made a jab at her weak communication skills and embarrassing speeches claiming, “Kamala Harris Asks Communications Assistant If She Can Take Them Out For Coffee And Pick Their Brain Sometime.”
Kamala Harris has defined her legacy as Vice President on social justice stances alone.
Social Justice Warrior
While Harris’s motives may be well-intentioned, her far-left stances and lack of direction have even Democrats concerned.
John Morgan, a prominent fund-raiser for Democrats, including Mr. Biden, and a former Florida finance chairman for President Bill Clinton said of Harris, “I can’t think of one thing she’s done except stay out of the way and stand beside him at certain ceremonies,” he said.
In place of any real progress in immigration or voting reform, two issues Biden had assigned to Harris, she has resorted to accusations against “far right extremists” and social justice issues.
Although, considering the agenda of the entire Biden administration, this is not really an anomaly.
She is front and center at every pro-choice rally, every racial uprising, and every LGBTQUIA+ celebration.
Every speech somehow gets reduced to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Not only is this a pedantic technique, but it also continues to divide the already fragile national identity of the country.
Foreign Policy Disaster
Kamala Harris is not a keen negotiator nor a savvy political contestant. Her lack of experience would be particularly detrimental on the world stage. One can only imagine how little respect she would garner from titans such as Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin.
Sure, she could get by with smart appointments in the state and defense departments, but with the threat of China imminent, getting by will not cut it in the next decade. The most powerful democracy in the world would be significantly weaker than it already is under a Harris presidency, which considering the unavoidable reality of Joe Biden’s health, is a very likely scenario. Flat out, she would put the national security of the United States in great peril.
Apparently, according to Harris, the US military’s greatest strength lies not in its ability to defend the Taiwan strait or prevent cyber-attacks or even collect intel on our biggest adversaries.
Our military’s greatest strength rests on, predictably, its diversity.
In a commencement speech at West Point last month, Harris proclaimed to graduates:
“Our military is strongest when it fully reflects the people of America.”
Funny, I thought a strong military would be dependent on the capabilities and skills of its recruits. Skills like high levels of physical fitness or advanced knowledge of war theory and history.
But I’m no Mattis or McMaster so what do I know?
And while it’s almost impossible to imagine, the country would have a bigger mess at the southern border than it already does.
To Kamala Harris, everyone deserves everything for free. That is equity.
Harris’s PR Efforts
Never before has so much energy and expenditure been spent to boost the reputation and image of a vice president.
Recently, Politico reported that Emily’s List, one of the nation’s most powerful political groups tasked with bolstering female candidates, particularly those in favor of abortion rights, says it will be spending “tens of millions of dollars” to defend and prop up the vice president during the 2024 election.
This would hardly be necessary unless Harris were seen as a distinct liability to Biden.
The most recent polling through the end of April shows that over half of Americans, an average of 52%, disapprove of Harris’s tenure in office.
Kamala Harris: Staffing Issues
As if all of this wasn’t enough, rampant reports in 2021 express Harris’s office was consistently in disarray, foreshadowing a rocky administration should she become president.
A sharp commentary by CNN at the end of 2021 stated that her longtime supporters felt “abandoned and saw no coherent public sense of what she’s done or been trying to do as vice president.”
Such history of turnover does not speak well for a potential presidential cabinet, even one that would already be set by Biden. It would be more of the same chaos the executive office has endured for the past seven years under both the Trump and Biden administrations.
And I don’t think anyone, Democrat or Republican wants that.
Jennifer Galardi is the politics and culture editor for 19Fortyfive, writing opinion columns for the publication. She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Pepperdine University and produces and hosts the podcast Connection with conversations that address health, culture, politics, and policy. In a previous life, she wrote for publications in the health, fitness, and nutrition space. In addition, her pieces have been published in the Epoch Times and Pepperdine Policy Review. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
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