“Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record.” The speaker was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a long-shot presidential contender who had already made herself something of a pariah in Democratic politics. In a prior Democratic presidential debate a month earlier, Sen. Kamala Harris had broken out with a couple of viral moments — among other things heavily insinuating that former Vice President Joe Biden was a racist for working with segregationist senators to oppose busing. (This mau-mauing would ultimately pay off in ways that even she could not have possibly anticipated.) This time, however, on July 31, 2019, Harris was the one being roasted. “There are too many examples to cite,” Gabbard went on. “But she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.” Harris really should have been prepared for all of these allegations. Instead, she appeared flabbergasted and...