A book written by progressives, about progressives, blasted Kamala Harris at a time when political observers speculated whether she would be replaced as Joe Biden’s vice president. In it, White House aides outlined Harris’s inability to define a political agenda and her total reliance on personality.
Now, with Harris in a tight race for the presidency with Donald Trump, the book has been resurfaced eight months after its release.
As recently as the summer of 2023, a cavalcade of Democratic party superstars like California Gov. Gavin Newsom were brandishing their leadership credentials as calls grew for Biden to step aside. Once that time passed, the left-wing whisper machine turned on Harris and her historically abysmal favorability numbers.
Enter “The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party,” which dropped in January. That was just enough time for the left to replace Kamala Harris and, one would think, supplied them with enough ammunition to do it.
“It was rotten from the start,” a top aide from her 2020 campaign noted. “A lot of us, at least folks that I was friends with on the campaign, all realized that: ‘Yeah, this person should not be president of the United States,’ the aide told the authors.
The only policy positions she’s personally vocalized are plans to implement price controls as a way to curb grocery store price gouging and tax proposals that include expanding the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits.
Beyond this, nearly all of the information regarding her presidential plans have come from anonymous staffers’ slow-drip leaks to news outlets.
Her lack of concrete proposals and continued reliance on charisma and vibes continue a pattern her aides said made her unfit for the presidency.
“Kamala is not ready for prime time,” a senior White House staffer told the authors. “She ain’t made for this.”
