Former Vice President Kamala Harris is well-known for vilifying and demonizing her political opponents. Her harsh and inflammatory rhetoric was part of her routine as a senator from California and long before. Her vile attacks during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings revealed her true character as a politician, or lack thereof. This was only compounded and amplified during her presidential campaign when she regularly accused Donald Trump of being a fascist. 

Look no further than Charlie Kirk’s assassin, who replicated her words, engraving “Hey fascist! Catch!” on a bullet casing. When the vice president is using the kind of rhetoric repeated by assassins and others seeking violence, it’s a good indication that it shouldn’t be said. Yet, even with the hindsight of a second failed presidential campaign, two assassination attempts on Trump, and the execution of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Harris continued her vile characterizations of political rivals and opponents — a day after the memorial service for Kirk, nonetheless.