Vice President Kamala Harris has been ridiculed for being a less-than-qualified presidential candidate and selected as President Joe Biden’s running mate mainly because of her race. This primarily has to do with the fact that in 2020, Biden and Democrats touted that they would select a running mate who was a black woman, specifically because she was a black woman. That created a phenomenon in which people believed that Harris was largely unintelligent and that her only qualifications were her race and gender.

Given her professional resume and academic background, this is generally an unfair assessment. Nevertheless, the vice president regularly says things that reinforce this reputation, something former President Donald Trump highlighted at one of his recent rallies. Yet, perhaps the most glaring incident of Harris’s questionable intelligence happened a few days ago when the Democratic appointee for president finally announced an economic policy she would pursue as president: passing a federal ban on “price gauging.”