“She is a dead-on prosecutor,” Kamala Harris’s political mentor Willie Brown wrote about Kamala Harris in her first months in the Senate, “and when she goes into that mode, watch out. She is out for blood.”
Brown’s assessment of her, “always a prosecutor,” and “out for blood,” explains why she leads the early Democratic presidential field. While an ideological sliver on the Left objects to her zealous prosecution of those she perceives as enemies of “the people,” her record as a punisher is music to the ears of the largest part of the Democratic base. Kamala is out for blood, just like they are.
In her opening campaign rally, she pointed to some figures whose prosecution is pretty popular: Wall Street bankers. This puts her party in quite an interesting position vis-a-vis bankers: The government ought to bail them out, and them lock them up.
But we know “Kamala the Cop” doesn’t want to stop with Wall Street bankers. She first earned nationwide plaudits for her pseudo-prosecution of Brett Kavanaugh. If you recall, her first foray had nothing to do with the unsubstantiated accusations of sexual assault, but was a pointed line of questioning about conversations with “the Kasowitz law firm.”
The questions were very specific, and she refused to provide context, playing the typical bullying “this is a yes or no question.” The press ate it up, lauding the “prosecutorial beatdown.”
It was a farce, of course. There was nothing there besides flexing the power of the dais in order to insinuate and smear.
She didn’t need an underlying offense, because Kavanaugh being a conservative white dude appointed by President Trump was the underlying offense. Kavanaugh therefore deserved whatever “prosecutorial beatdown” he got — and Kamala the Cop was the one to deliver it.
Kamala also led the charge to declare Kavanaugh guilty of sexual assault despite the total lack of corroborating evidence for the changing testimony of Christine Blasey Ford.
Corroborating evidence is part of due process. Due process is not part of the Democratic base’s values set today.
Look at how the Left and the news media declared the Covington Catholic boys guilty. Many still stick to the story, even after it’s become clear what happened — a notorious racist hate group accosted a group of teenagers shouting bigoted comments, and then a con-man grifter walked up and banged drums in their face before running to the media and spreading lies about it.
Facts don’t matter to the left-wing base. All that matters is that the bad guys deserve punishment. And Kamala’s the one to dole it out.
This is the way so many prosecutors work. They identify the criminal, and then they find the crime. Al Capone was prosecuted for tax evasion, recall. Ted Stevens was prosecuted, through prosecutorial abuse, for making false financial disclosures. In both cases, the prosecutors started with knowledge of who was bad, then found a pretext for charging them.
Today, the Left’s base knows who is bad, and they know Kamala is going to go after them. Her campaign motto, which borrows from how a prosecutor is announced in court, puts “the people” against those who are “not America,” i.e., not “the people.”
In her Oakland rally, she listed some truly foul creatures such as white supremacists and sexual predators and declared “that’s not our America.” But who else, besides white supremacists and abusers, does Harris exclude from “the people?” For starters, millions of gun owners don’t belong in Kamala Harris’s America. “There’s no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons,” she said. “Assault weapons,” of course, is an ugly synonym for AR-15s, the most popular gun in America.
We also know from Democratic rhetoric what else “is not America.” Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado, surely isn’t among the people Kamala is for. Nor are the Little Sisters of the Poor. She’s already declared the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization, to be an extremist group, outside the bounds of permissible opinion. They’ll be in her crosshairs if she takes over the federal law enforcement apparatus.
Watch the video of Harris giddily describing her prosecuting the parents of truant kids. In this loathesome monologue, she points to the certainty provided her by social science. Now consider her culture-warrior ways. You’d better believe that homeschoolers whose curricula don’t meet her standards are next. Then the Christian schools, like the one where Karen Pence works, will be the next ones targeted “for the people.”
These are the bad guys in the eyes of the Left’s base. They don’t deserve the presumption of innocence or the privilege of due process. They’ve had enough privilege.
Kamala’s the one to go after these bad guys without hesitation.
Outside of and beyond the culture war, there’s an even bigger bad guy. It’s Donald Trump, and everyone in his circle. The appetite is high for punishment of Trump and everyone who associated with him.
The irony is that by tapping into this appetite for punishment, Harris is imitating Trump. Other Republican candidates were willing to excoriate the corruption of the Clintons and vow to defeat Hillary in 2016. Trump knew that the GOP base, having watched the Clintons get away with corrupt self-enrichment, sexual assault, perjury, and other crimes for decades, wanted more. They demanded a greater catharsis. Thus “Lock Her Up!” became a central rallying cry of his campaign.
Now it’s the Democratic base that’s thirsting for punishment. And Kamala, “out for blood,” is the one to dole it out — for the people, of course.
