Conservatives of today love playing the victim. And that’s too bad.
A conservative editorial recently speculated that the Kamala Harris presidential campaign “is betting the press won’t care” about her “past political views, her recent flip-flops, the Biden-Harris record in office, and what appears to be her implicit endorsement of the Biden economic and national security policies.”
The implied point is that “the press,” or the “Mainstream Media” (MSM), is giving Harris a free pass on the way to the White House. Worse, this is all taking place as the Harris campaign bets that “Mr. Trump won’t do the homework or doesn’t have the discipline and focus to expose” Harris’s myriad demerits “in debate or consistently on the stump.” No, this doesn’t make sense.
Which is not a defense of Kamala Harris. At all. Without a teleprompter she’s plainly hopeless. And to the extent that she expresses policy ideas, they’re either bad (tax hikes, a block of U.S. Steel’s acquisition, extension of tariffs, etc.), or they’re a copy of her opponent’s ideas (building a wall at the southern border, zeroing taxes on tips). Still, to pretend that “the media” can make Harris what she’s not to the detriment of Donald Trump amounts to conservative victimhood all over again.
