Vice President Kamala Harris gave the public its first real look into her nascent presidential campaign with a stop at her organizationās headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday night.
Harrisā first applause line came when she discussed her background as California attorney general and as a courtroom prosecutor.
āIn those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,ā she said, earning cackles while she beamed, clearly enjoying the joke. āPredators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trumpās type.ā
Yeah. This is getting me slightly excited again. Iām an independent voter and have never voted Democrat but I may just well do that this time. Couldnāt stomach Biden but she seems to actually know what the hell she is talking about. Please go after Congressional term limits, tax the crap out of the rich, and reform lobbying with solid game plans. Talk is cheap.
I have a lot of concern about how progressive she will actually be - her pre-VP track record doesnāt seem great to me, but sheās not Trump and I really hope I can feel OK about voting for her second term. She gets my vote this time because Trump, but if sheās going to sprint right back to 2016-era corporatist Democrat behavior then all weāve done is delay the inevitable rightward creep and continue to enable rampant corporate greed.
Her voting record in the Senate is actually super progressive. I donāt think thereās much to worry about there.
Despite that Iāve spent most of my Lemmy time today defending my criticisms of Harris or Dems in general, I truly want you to be right, and I hope thatās what weāll see when she starts influencing policy as President. (Assuming she wins, and I have a good feeling she will unless something truly batshit happens between now and then.)