The Case Against Harris

Editor’s Note: Apologies for the length of this post, which runs nearly triple my average word count. If you want a TL;DR, I posit that a Harris presidency will do enormous and lasting damage to the nation, validate every lie, dirty trick, misdirection, and destructive idea the Left has foisted on America, and cause unfixable damage. All that needs an overt rejection, even if it means accepting what comes with a Trump victory.

Election Day is right around the corner. While it's hard to fathom that there are people who haven't yet made up their minds as to their vote or their preference of outcome (not the same thing), a population of over 160M registered voters does suggest that there are indeed some who are either undecided as to their vote or undecided as to whether they will vote. With the latter population being larger, in my un-researched opinion.

Today, I will not tell you how I think you should vote. I'm not going to tell you how I am going to vote. Instead, I offer why I want Harris and the Democrats to lose.

• A Harris victory would validate all the shenanigans, lies, dirty tricks, lawfare, speech suppression, and other anti-liberty deeds of the Democrats, the Left, academia, and the mainstream press, and ensure more of the same. The Steele Dossier, the Russian collusion hoax, the lies and suppression about Hunter Biden's laptop, and too many more government, press, and institutional misdeeds to list here would all be rewarded.

• A Harris victory will open the door to turning the Supreme Court into a political football, where every swing of power between Team Red and Team Blue will result in adding new judges in order to tip the balance. The goal for both will be to have the court rubber-stamp whatever policies the team in ascendance enacts, and will mark the end of an independent judiciary, the co-equal premise of our government structure, and limited government itself. The Court's main job is to say "no" to government overreach, and the Left under Harris would try its best to eliminate that job.

• A Harris victory will reward the mainstream press for being lapdogs and extensions of the Democratic Party. As Douglas Murray noted, "the job of a journalist in relation to politicians is famously what the position of a dog should be to a lamppost." Absent a press engaging in actual journalism, government can run as amok as it wishes.

• A Harris victory will embolden those who wish to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate. Absent that mechanism, the nation will continue its slide into 50%+1 majoritarian rule, with our rights and liberties being the first casualties.

• A Harris victory will bring back inflation, since she has made it clear her approach to governance is to spend, spend, spend. Biden's inflation only got tamed by a combination of economy-slowing monetary actions and "growing into" the giant spending bills that he passed early on... and is poised to return the moment the Fed cuts rates beyond a few nibbles.

• A Harris administration will do absolutely nothing about the southern border, allowing the unimpeded flood of migrants to continue. That same administration will seek to find ways to grant a path to citizenship for these migrants, so that they can tip the electoral scales permanently in the Democrat's favor. Her sudden pretense to caring about that border will go “fart in a wind tunnel,” to quote Harlan Ellison.

• A Harris victory will incentivize the federal takeover of elections. Think elections are chaotic now? Wait until the feds get involved. The incompetence will magnify across the nation, and the incentives to cheat will only grow stronger.

• A Harris victory will reward the “coup” that removed Biden from the election, an effort that was precipitated by a wall of lies and obfuscation as to his declining mental state back when the voters could have had an actual say as to who should be the Democratic nominee. This by those who claim Trump is the threat to democracy.

• A Harris victory will embolden those who want to clamp down on free speech, under the guise of controlling "disinformation" and misinformation. The government is the very last entity that should be trusted to tell us what is correct, or to control what we can read, see, and hear.

• A Harris victory will reinforce the green fascism that is forcing electrification upon the nation, reducing energy reliability, security, and independence, spiking energy prices, growing our reliance on foreign sourcing of many resources, damaging the land and seas, and much more.

• A Harris victory will usher in attempts to further tax the successful, slowing the economy and disincentivizing human progress. This will go beyond simply raising the tax rates on the highest earners (who are also, by far, the most heavily taxed), and into creative new ways to separate people from the fruit of their labor. See: unrealized gains taxes and more.

• A Harris victory will see the return of price control idiocy, a surefire way to create shortages and clobber economic activity.

• A Harris victory would see the continuation of government destroying women’s athletics via the rewrite of Title IX.

• A Harris victory will see the pursuit of a new home health care entitlement program, further piling on the national debt and continuing the process of rewarding society's takers.

• A Harris victory will see a giant giveaway in housing, as a twisted and ineffective "remedy" to the housing shortage. A shortage that has at its roots big government policies, and which will only get worse with more interventions.

• A Harris victory will usher in a new child credit blowout, meaning that most taxpayers, who pay very little in taxes as it is, will pay even less. The number of households that receive more from the government than they contribute will grow even larger, and accelerating the bankrupting of America.

• A Harris victory will see even more money spent on supporting migrants, at the national, state, and local levels, with citizens losing out on services, on disaster relief, and on quality of life as a result.

• A Harris victory will see any pretense of supporting Israel evaporate, to be replaced by a massive outlay of “humanitarian aide” toward the Palestinians (aka Hamas and Hezbollah), a subsequent re-empowerment of those terrorist organizations, and pressure on Israel to cease its efforts.

• A Harris victory will reward the rampant Jew hatred in the nation, as the Left continues its effort to see Israel destroyed in favor of some mythical state named "Palestine."

• A Harris victory will rekindle the Left's desire to ban fracking. Harris the primary candidate made her opposition to fracking quite clear. Harris the "needs Pennsylvania" presidential candidate changed her mind on fracking, without any explanation or justification. Which version do you believe?

• A Harris victory will continue the fealty to teachers’ unions and against school kids. Harris’s opposition to school choice will stand in the way of a burgeoning movement to put control of chidren’s education back in parents’ hands.

• A Harris victory will see administrative efforts to ban certain classes of firearms, and a pursuit of "buy-back" programs aimed at the most popular and widely owned gun formats in the country.

• A Harris victory would reopen the door to a "deal" with Iran that will accelerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons while enabling it to continue its proxy wars against Israel. The Biden administration appears to have a perpetual and Obama-ego-driven insistence on making a deal with the mad mullahs, against all common sense and logic.

• A Harris victory would continue the weaponizing of such agencies as the IRS and the DOJ, with selective pursuit and prosecution of those of the wrong political flavor.

• A Harris victory would put an intellectual lightweight, someone incapable of articulating a cogent response to a question without replaying canned sound bites, with no record of executive ability, and with a very overt projection of incompetence, at the head of the most powerful nation in the world.

As to that last point, I have seen nothing to suggest that Harris is capable of doing the job of President. She projects nothing that would give me the slightest confidence in her ability to handle what is arguably one of the toughest and most demanding jobs on the planet. Her “basement campaign” which entailed hiding from the press, her refusal to take extemporaneous questions or give unscripted interviews, her word-salad responses to the questions she and her handlers allow to be asked… none of this points at someone who is ready to be the chief executive of the nation.

Again…

What has Harris accomplished that could give anyone confidence she can handle the job of President? What experience does she have that would transfer to the Chief Executive job?

She asserts that Trump “is unfit to serve.” I counter that she is the unfit one. Someone prove me wrong, I dare you.

Make no mistake, this is not a ringing endorsement of the Untethered Orange Id. I am not a fan of many of his proposals, I am not a fan of the populist direction of the GOP, his ideas on tariffs and protectionism are stupid and harmful, and I cringe every time he coughs up a “make X tax-free” hairball. I would so rather have had DeSantis or Haley or any of several others at the top of the GOP ticket, even though they, too, have policy views that I don't like. But, this is a matter of "who would I rather see win" between Trump and Harris, and for me the choice is crystal clear.

That conclusion even stands up to the “Trump is a bad person” argument. Harris is a worse person than Trump in many ways. One look at her behavior as prosecutor and District Attorney, where she jailed innocents and kept convicts in prison past their release dates to serve selfish ends, tells us a lot. Her weathervane politics tells us more. Her willingness to coerce doctors and hospitals to perform abortions in violation of their religious beliefs is another red flag.

Some on the Right believe that Trump losing will open a door to the return of "normal" conservatism. Given that a Harris administration will be a "more so" extension of the Biden administration, which was an extension and expansion of the Obama administration, the elements that spurred the GOP in a populist direction will still be there. And even greater in magnitude. "Trumpism" isn't a creation of The Donald's, it's a product of what the GOP core wants. "Real Conservatives" are a small subset who are far better off, in my opinion, selling their ideas to the majority than banking on a Trump loss to "unbrainwash" or whatever the Trump faithful.

It's far more likely that the next primary will be won by someone pitching much the same agenda as Trump than by a Reaganite or Goldwaterite. This would make the objection to Trump about personality, not policy. Personality goes away, but policy lingers. Policy is what matters to me, and while Trump has a lot of stupid ideas, en toto his agenda is far less harmful to the nation than Harris's.

The overt threats to the Supreme Court, alone, is enough to make me dread a Harris Presidency.

A loss by the Left, on the other hand, might actually prompt the normal democrats to reject the yipping dogs on their left. Those yippers are a minority, unlike the swathes of Trump supporters or tolerators. The reason they have ascendance in terms of policy is the fear that they instilled in the Democratic rank and file. That fear has ebbed of late, with the loony-woke's excesses in such matters as transgenders in women's sports, Israel, speech suppression, government weaponization, and more making good liberals question their alliance with leftists. Hit a "reset" button by rejecting Harris, and maybe we get a restoration of sanity to the Democrats and more overlap (and normalized relations) between the two major parties.

I understand that some believe Harris would either not pursue or not be able to achieve many of the things I list here, and it's highly unlikely that she would. But, there's a chance she could get a lot of this done, especially with Congressional fecklessness and the continued expansion of the administrative branch's power.

Some argue that the nation will survive Harris. Consider, though, that after one Biden term, the nation has endured a nearly 25% loss of value in the dollar, a 25% increase in the national debt, twelve million migrants have entered the nation unlawfully, and a mountain of new, economy stifling regulations have landed on Americans' shoulders.

Should any of this be rewarded by putting someone that not a single Democratic voter had a chance to weigh in on this past year? Someone who bypassed the Democratic process, after being roundly rejected by primary voters in 2020? Someone who has told us she changed many long-held policy positions but hasn't explained any of those changes?

Can the nation endure another 25% inflation hit, another 25% national debt hit, another dozen million migrants, and all the rest that Harris would deliver?

If you want to wash your hands of this whole matter, that's up to you. But, washing your hands doesn't mean that the sordid affair goes away. Were we talking two different flavors of the same cup of filth, as has been the case in many past elections, I'd not be writing screeds like this.

Today, we are looking at a "machine," a toxic stew consisting of the left-leaning legacy media, the faculty and student bodies in our elite universities, the Big Tech Big Money folks in Silicon Valley and their rent-seeing counterparts on Wall Street, the Democratic Party's apparatchiks, and the entrenched and persistent bureaucracies. That Machine gets rewarded by a Harris win and repudiated by a Harris loss, and that repudiation is so vital that I'm willing to stomach a Trump term in exchange.

If we look at Trump v Harris as two different cups of poison, it is well worth noting that Trump will be surrounded, indeed besieged, by buffers and antidotes, while Harris will be just one of many ingredients in the aforementioned toxic stew.

In the 500 year old words of a Renaissance man, the dose makes the poison.

Trump is a cupful. Harris is a five gallon pail.

Trump will get some things right, some things wrong, his term will be messy, and his legacy after time fades the hysteria will be a modest one. Harris will get very few things right, most things wrong, her term will be even messier, and her legacy will be one of destruction and permanent damage.