Harris Wants To Be LBJ or Trotsky?

Perhaps the most depressing thing about the Democrats’ convention in Chicago & it’s “Project 2025” is that that “platform offers a vision where the answer is always government."

So says the WSJ’s editorial board in trying to figure out the party’s plans & what Kamala Harris will do if she should win the presidential election in a little more than 70 days from now: “But for one clue as to Ms. Harris’s direction, look at what the Democratic base believes, since she has a history of following her party instead of leading it.” And, a peek at the DNC’s 92-page “platform”, the editors opine, is an “economic worldview in which the government is the answer, almost no matter the question.” It also unfailingly casts private businesses as always “gouging” or adding “junk fees,” or otherwise “trying to rip somebody off.” Instead, we’re told, “Washington’s wise men are capable of providing for the American people, if only they have the power to pass [still more] laws & regulations.”

Those progressive if not socialistic “ideas” include an even bigger subsidized yet expensive Obamacare; MORE benefits for the soon insolvent Medicare program; MORE Medicaid coverage on the federal taxpayers’ dime; FREE universal preschool for 4-yr-olds; MORE paid family & medical leave, a still HIGHER minimum wage; and so on. As the editors concede, little of the Party’s platform may ever see the light of day & Chameleon Kamala has been known to bend with the latest wind from public sentiment.  On the other hand, while dodging questions from the press, nearly every one of her speeches have not only seemed to endorse all the above ideas but MORE, e.g, her recent call for price controls of groceries, a $25K subsidy for new home buyers, a steep increase in corporate income taxes & single-payer health care aka Medicare for All. The WSJ wonders whether “Biden fancied himself as FDR” while “Harris wants to be LBJ.” But, frankly, it sounds more like Harris wants to be Trotsky.

Davd Soul