The rejection of Kamala Harris is a resounding repudiation of the worst elements of the DEI cult, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. The American people threw out Biden’s diversity hire and sent her packing. Here’s an excerpt.
Any objective observer could see Kamala was unqualified for the job. Even Kamala at times, behind the cackle laugh and the word salads and the baffling array of accents, seemed to know she wasn’t up to it.
But they pressed ahead with her anyway. In the end, it didn’t seem to matter to the virtue-signalling Left that Kamala’s position had been achieved by chance to a greater extent than anyone since Lyndon Johnson. That, a diversity hire for VP, she was able to fall into the presidency slot because Joe Biden needed to be put out to pasture with no time for a contest.
They sneered at Republicans who claimed Kamala was a DEI-hire candidate, but they surely had to know they had a point. The Left see the world through the prism of identity politics. In their human hierarchy, merit and grit come below race, gender and ethnicity. “Whomever I pick [for Vice President],” proclaimed Joe Biden in an embarrassing display of performative allyship, “preferably it will be someone who was of a colour and/or different gender”. That was in 2019. Five years later, the American people have roundly rejected this progressive creed.
Most voters, it turns out, still believe that people should be hired and promoted on the strength of their character, ability and experience. And there was simply too little evidence of this in Kamala: she appeared to have no intellectual resources, no managerial ability and a simplistic view on any topic on which she has spoken.
Kamala is the lawyer who can barely get to the end of a sentence, much less string together a coherent thought. She was utterly ineffectual when confronted with the crisis on the Southern Border. Her economic plans were downright bonkers, and exhibited a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes behind the recent spike in inflation. Her approach to foreign affairs was even worse, in that she didn’t appear to have one. Her talent for fundraising was remarkable and her campaign was disciplined, but it was also schizophrenic: she was the “change” candidate unable to point to a single policy she’d have done differently to Biden.
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