It’s established now that California Sen. Kamala Harris is a great politician, one of the naturals, up there, perhaps, with the Roosevelt cousins, the Kennedy brothers (Jack and Bobby, that is, not Ted), and Ronald Reagan.

They were all skilled at the art of making themselves the heroes of their own life stories, the ones at the center of all of the action, to whom all other people react. Like three of the five, she is stunning to look at (though Bobby could pass as a Steve McQueen hero), and she somewhat resembles the actress Faye Dunaway in the facial expressions, the eyes and the mouth.