Kamala Harris has always worn her radical left-wing credentials like a badge of honor. As California’s Attorney General, she pushed far-left policies that would make Bernie Sanders blush. She supported sanctuary cities, opposed death penalties, and championed a criminal justice reform plan that critics called soft on crime. Harris embraced the Green New Deal and Medicare for All in her Senate days.
She’s been part of an administration pushing for massive government spending and extreme climate policies. Her history is clear: Harris is no moderate. She’s a true-blue progressive who bends whichever way the far-left wind blows.
Yet, these days, Harris is trying to repackage herself. Facing a skeptical electorate, she’s attempting to present a more “pragmatic” front. Don’t be fooled. Her recent nods to middle-ground policies are nothing more than political posturing. Even Bernie Sanders isn’t buying the act. During a recent interview on Meet the Press, the Vermont senator and socialist stalwart doubled down on Harris’s progressive nature, suggesting that her policy shifts are simply a strategy to win the election. He doesn’t think she’s abandoned her radical roots, and neither should voters.
During a Sunday interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he still considers Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris to be “a progressive” who isn’t “abandoning her ideals” but is merely being “pragmatic” on her changing positions in order to win.
When asked by host Kristen Welker if he thinks Harris “is abandoning her progressive ideals,” Sanders responded: “No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.” [Source: The Post Millennial]
In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Sanders was asked whether Harris was “abandoning her progressive ideals” in light of her more moderate talking points. Sanders, always the socialist oracle, responded bluntly: “No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals.” According to Bernie, Harris is just playing the game. She’s trying to be “pragmatic” to win over voters who aren’t interested in her far-left fantasies. It’s a classic political bait-and-switch: say one thing to get elected, then govern how you want once you’re in.
Sanders wasn’t shy about pointing out the differences between himself and Harris. He acknowledged that her views are not as far left as his own, but he still considers her a progressive. He pointed to her support for making the child tax credit permanent and her plans to build three million units of affordable housing. In Sanders’ eyes, that’s good enough to keep her in the progressive club.
Of course, Harris’s housing plan sounds suspiciously similar to the socialist policies of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Bernie himself praised Harris’s housing proposal, which is based on the idea that the government can fix the housing crisis by throwing money at it and building more units. But as conservatives know, more government intervention usually leads to more problems.
Harris’s latest progressive push? Socialist-style price controls on the grocery industry. She claims it’s to combat price gouging, but grocers typically operate on slim profit margins of 1-3 percent in a fiercely competitive market. These price controls are more about government overreach than helping families struggling with inflation.
Despite her attempts to mask her true beliefs, Harris is still the same far-left politician she’s always been. Her policies, whether it’s housing or price controls, are just more of the same radical, big-government solutions that Democrats have been pushing for years. Don’t be fooled by the pragmatism talk—Harris is as progressive as ever.
Author: Bo Dogan
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