“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.