Hidin' Harris 2024 is a terrible strategy and a danger for our democracy

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According to the Kamala Harris Democratic presidential campaign and her lapdogs in the liberal media, to the extent those entities are any different, the candidate’s refusal to take questions is fully justified by her small lead in some polling. The argument is cynical, insulting, and dangerous.

The cynicism is familiar, win by any means, nobody needs to hear about actual policies, just cook up some Russian collusion or call a laptop fake. All that matters is winning.

This idea is insulting because it suggests that as long as Harris can squeak by with 52% of the vote, then the other 48% of Americans can be completely ignored. It appears that, for the Harris campaign, these voters just don’t matter or even exist.

37 DAYS: VP HARRIS REFUSES TO REVEAL POLICY POSITIONS, GIVE NEWS CONFERENCES OR INTERVIEWS

And that leads to what is dangerous here, because if the Hidin’ Harris 2024 model is successful, if it becomes the new norm, we will no longer have presidential elections about ideas, but rather, simple, tribal, political party exercises in winning over small margins.

There will be no more grand visions that can unify the country, no more great presidents who we can all admire, no more historic experiment in self-governance, but in its stead we’ll engage in a trench warfare of animosity and despair, leading nowhere.

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