Kamala Harris’ vapid interview with CNN’s Dana Bash revealed much about the presidential candidate (not to mention the sycophantic media). Perhaps the most intriguing: For someone so willing to attack others’ policy proposals, Harris seems quite unwilling to offer many of her own.
I refer, of course, to the attacks by the Harris campaign, the Joe Biden reelection campaign before that, and the left in general on Project 2025, a policy and management blueprint issued by a coalition of conservative organizations so that the next conservative president can hit the ground running next January. Those attacks have led Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to assert repeatedly that no outside organization can speak to what policies he would implement if elected.
Those caveats aside, it’s worth unpacking the dynamics of the attacks, because they reveal much about the state of our current politics — and not for the better, unfortunately.
Irony 1: Policies Are ‘Unpopular’ Because They’re Rational
I will confess that while I read the Project 2025 chapter on health care in great detail, I have not done so with most of the other chapters in the 900-page book or the hundreds of policy proposals contained therein. (Side note: If a left-wing friend, or member of the media, starts making comments about Project 2025, ask them if they’ve actually read the entire document itself. The number may be so infinitesimal as to approach zero.)
Most of the attacks on Project 2025 insinuate that there is something unpopular or radical about the
