By Jeffrey A. Rendall
Kamala Harris is like a type of plant that keeps turning up in your yard unannounced
I remember, as a kid, asking my dad why we’d get rid of certain plants in the yard while working extra diligently to introduce others.
“They’re weeds,” he explained simply, suggesting that the purposely placed plants were pleasing and beautiful while the weeds… weren’t. I spent many, many hours deciphering the difference between the noxious weeds and the desirable plants.
One thing I also recall learning was how weeds kept returning every year no matter how diligently we toiled to eradicate them. Further, they’d grow in common sense defying places, like driveway cracks, too. On and on they came. We’d pull ‘em, and they’d come back. We’d chop ‘em, and they’d come back again. Roundup would kill one weed once, but there’d always be another. They’re perpetual.
If it’s said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes, you could add weeds to the shortlist and it wouldn’t be inaccurate.
The real-life lesson gathered here? Weeds are like politicians, especially Democrat ones.
In that sense, Kamala Harris is definitely like a weed. No need for marijuana jokes, either. The former vice president keeps reappearing in places she’s not wanted or respected, and worse yet, no matter what common-sense grounded Americans might do to send her away, she keeps coming back.
Cackling Kamala is currently atop a number of polls featuring potential 2028 Democrat presidential candidates. It’s only natural she’d be there because she was the last liberal party member to run – and lose – in a national election. She’s a tremendously flawed aspirant who just won’t accept the fact she’s not appealing to Americans who demand leadership qualities and good policy ideas from their officeholders.
Harris is like the worst kind of weed. Only now, Kamala has her sights set on capturing the imaginations of the burgeoning communist contingent in the Democrat party. Will her latest mission to assemble a winning voter coalition bear fruit for her?
In a newsletter entry titled, “Kamala and the communists”, Byron York reported at the Washington Examiner recently:
“…The former vice president has her work cut out for her. To give just one example, when Darializa Avila Chevalier, the star of the new socialist/communist team, deleted many of her inflammatory social media posts, one of those posts, from June 2021, read, ‘F*** Kamala Harris.’ Another pro-Palestinian voice told Axios, ‘Why should we trust her now?’
“It’s probably safe to say Avila Chevalier and her friends won’t be cozying up to Harris anytime soon. But Harris’s effort is more evidence, as if any more is needed, of the energy behind the socialist/communist wave in the Democratic world. If the party’s most recent presidential nominee craves their support, then everyone who wants to prosper in Democratic politics will need it, too.
“Of course one question is whether Mamdani and his comrades, no matter what they think of Harris, will have to pay attention to her. After all, she is leading the polls for the 2028 Democratic nomination. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Harris is 10 points ahead of Gavin Newsom, 15 points ahead of Pete Buttigieg, 16 points ahead of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 21 points ahead of Josh Shapiro, 22 points ahead of Mark Kelly, 24 points ahead of Andy Beshear, and 24 points ahead of JB Pritzker.”
JB Pritzker? That’s one awful rotund weed, folks.
To address York’s question, the answer is yes, the insurgent communists/socialists will need to pay attention to cackling Kamala. No matter how weed-like conservatives see her as, the featherlight intellectually challenged former California Attorney General and senator has a solid base of support to start off with, which is more than any of the other prospective Democrat presidential wannabes can boast.
As I’ve written a number of times, the most loyal Democrat-or-die demographic bloc is black women, and the identity-politics driven cohort seems to like Harris because they view her as one of their own.
It might not mean much to most people, but black women appear to think that the way a person looks and the individual’s gender makes a heck of a lot of difference to their appeal as a national policymaker. Why? Because if you’re a black woman and you see another of your “kind”, chances are they’re liberal and will steer policies towards giving your group a larger slice of the government pie.
Some plants in the yard aren’t desirable. But to black women, a weed that looks like Kamala Harris is more appealing than an expensive pale flower that disagrees with you culturally.
Therefore, will the uncompromising communists mentioned in York’s post take to cackling Kamala as readily?
It probably depends on whether they surmise the former veep is anti-Israel enough. I don’t specifically recall what Harris said about the subject during the 2024 campaign, but if she was anything like her old-style Democrat boss – senile Joe Biden – Kamala no doubt felt compelled to give lip-service to the notion that Democrats always supported Israel.
My, how things have changed in Democrat-land in a brief timeframe!
The communists/socialists are on the rise and the reluctant to join the bash-Israel contingent of old Democrats are on the decline. Many smart commentators felt Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro would’ve been the wise choice for Harris to tap as his running mate two years ago, but Shapiro’s Jewish-ness would turn off the growing-in-influence Muslim populations of a number of important Electoral College swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin.
So Tim Walz received Kamala’s nod instead. The rest is history. Walz is now under investigation for a number of potential crimes involving fraud and various other ethics violations, effectively removing him from consideration for the 2028 Democrat presidential field.
Heck, “Tampon Tim” Walz isn’t even trying to win reelection in Minnesota after his name has been tarnished beyond salvage by his own misdeeds.
But, like a weed in your yard, cackling Kamala keeps coming back. And, according to York’s reporting, she’s attempting to bring the communists into her camp, too. Why?
First and foremost, Kamala Harris’s views closely align with theirs, so the “free everything” crowd should find her acceptable in terms of pure political motives. To the extent Harris believes in anything, she seems to take to big government socialist viewpoints, which also includes vastly expanding Medicare coverage as well as hiking taxes on rich people to “pay their fair share.”
Second, Kamala’s appeal is entirely based on race and to some extent, gender, which is the calling card of the new communists/socialists, namely, pitting people against each other based on immutable characteristics that drive shallow individuals to resent someone else. They tell you — if you haven’t succeeded, it’s because the white guys have kept you down, right?
Lastly, though she was the Democrat nominee in 2024, Kamala doesn’t have deep ties to the party establishment (think Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama), which would seem to make her eligible for favor from the communist/socialists.
More “mainstream” possible Democrat candidates like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear would have zero chance of attracting support from the all-race-all-the-time communists/socialists. But weed-like Kamala Harris checks all the right boxes for the “burn it down” fanatics.
When combined with Kamala’s majority support from black women, Harris would look strong in any Democrat primary race. It makes sense that cackling Kamala would be making overtures to Zohran Mamdani to attempt to sway a percentage of the fringe kooks to at least give her a chance in 2028.
If presented the opportunity, here’s thinking Kamala Harris could persuade them that she’s “out there” enough to earn their support, and with a little work, can make inroads into the anti-Semitic freak delegation as well.
They’d just need to overlook the fact Kamala is married to a white guy who happens to be… Jewish.
Who knows? In today’s Democrat party, Kamala n’ Doug could become the frontline soldiers against the invisible “white supremacists”, who, according to surveys, are the true threats from terrorism in Democrat voters’ opinion.
You could say Kamala is smart to pursue her “all-inclusive” strategy to coax the communists/socialists into her sphere. Democrats have gotten so unreasonable in their demands and untreatable Trump Derangement Syndrome that any candidate who hopes to compete for the presidential nomination must crawl on their knees to the Bernie Sanders wing to keep up.
Kamala Harris may be like a weed, but she probably understands that the key to success in her party is possessing the ability to stick around the longest and convince the kook fringe that she’s legit. And keep coming back… a little like a weed.
The key to Democrat immortality is placating the communists/socialists. Has Kamala Harris got what it takes to take root? A flower gardener wants to know…
Jeff Rendall is editor and publisher of GolfintheUSA.com and has written about golf and politics for over a quarter of a century. A non-practicing attorney from California, he moved to the east coast three decades ago to pursue and combine his interests in all things American history and culture. Jeff has worked as an intern on Capitol Hill and in various capacities in grassroots organizing and conservative organizations and publications, including a nearly two-decade stint at ConservativeHQ.com. Column republishing or other inquiries: Rendall@msn.com .