For years, Harris has consistently held anti-American views and pushed policies that undercut her claim to \u201clove America.\u201d<\/b>
\nAt a campaign rally in Wisconsin last week with former Rep. Liz Cheney, Vice President Kamala Harris opened by saying, \u201cwe love America.\u201d She repeated the phrase several times, emphasizing that what brought her and Cheney together is a love for country that transcends partisan politics.
Set aside whether the endorsement of Cheney matters at all to voters in either party. Her neocon Never-Trump brand of Republican politics is repugnant to most GOP voters, and Democrats have long denounced her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as a war criminal.
No one cares about the Cheney family\u2019s endorsement of Harris. The more important question is: does Harris really love America?
Her record suggests she does not, and that in fact she hates America.
Consider what Harris said about America when the New York Times launched its 1619 Project back in 2019. She called it \u201ca masterpiece\u201d and endorsed its central thesis, saying, \u201cWe must speak this truth: the very foundation of our country was built on the backs of enslaved people.\u201d
Recall that the entire purpose of the 1619 Project was to \u201creframe the country\u2019s history\u201d by placing slavery \u201cat the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.\u201d The project began with the false claim the \u201ctrue founding\u201d of America was not 1776 but 1619, when African slaves were first brought to North America. The essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones that launched the 1619 Project made a number of outlandish and quickly debunked historical assertions, like the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery and the American Founders didn\u2019t really believe in the ideals they espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The 1619 Project, in other words, is deeply anti-American. It asserts the American experiment in self-government was intrinsically evil, corrupt, and disingenuous from the beginning. To the extent Harris endorses that view of America\u2019s history and Founding, it calls into question whether she really does \u201clove America\u201d as she claims.
This is a pattern with Harris. Consistent with her endorsement of the anti-American 1619 Project is her support for reparations. During her brief presidential campaign in 2020, Harris pledged \u2014 to none other than race-hustler Al Sharpton, at a conference of black activists \u2014 to sign a bill authorizing a federal study of reparations for descendants of slaves.
If you thought Harris\u2019 radicals views about America\u2019s Founding and our history with slavery might also entail radical views of our Constitution, you\u2019d be right. During the 2020 Democratic primary, Harris repeatedly laid out a vision of executive power that makes a mockery of the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers. She promised \u201cexecutive action\u201d on gun control if Congress didn\u2019t pass federal legislation to her liking within 100 days of taking office. She said the same thing about drug prices, as if she would have to power to act on her own to create law if Congress didn\u2019t do as she ordered.
In fact, on a host of issues she promised to wield legislative powers from the White House, the Constitution be damned. On immigration, Harris vowed to implement DAPA, which was blocked by the courts under the Obama administration. On abortion, she promised to use the Justice Department for a system modeled on the Voting Rights Act that would force states and localities that she deemed to have a history of violating Roe v. Wade to obtain approval from the DOJ before any abortion law or regulation could take effect.
She had a bunch of proposals like that in 2020, all of them totally unconstitutional. During one of the Democratic primary debates, the moderator mentioned that Joe Biden had previously warned about the limits of executive power when it came to something like gun control, and asked Harris for a response. She quipped, \u201cWell, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can\u2019t, let\u2019s say yes, we can.\u201d
Harris\u2019 disdain for the Constitution is matched by her disdain for law and order during the BLM riots in the summer of 2020. She infamously helped raise money to bail out those arrested for rioting and looting, saying, \u201cThe people\u2019s voices must be heard.\u201d Of the protests themselves, which were premised on the false narrative that police unfairly and disproportionately target black Americans, Harris said they were \u201can essential evolution in our country,\u201d and \u201ca mark of a real democracy.\u201d
Maybe somewhere deep down Harris really does love America, or some potential future version of America. But it\u2019s clear from her record that she doesn\u2019t love anything about America\u2019s past and has at least a very dim view of America\u2019s present. It\u2019s also clear that she wants above all to transform America into a post-constitutional leftist oligarchy ruled by people like her.
There are different ways to describe what all that adds up to, but none of them amount anything close to love for America. Harris can insist all she wants on the campaign trail that she \u201cloves America,\u201d but her past statements and policy agenda show she actually hates it.<\/p>\n