Tell Us What You Really Think, Washington Post – HotAir

We’ve come a long way since “Brat Summer,” folks. 

Democrats have quietly grumbled about Kamala Harris since she dropped out of the presidential contest in 2019, but put on a brave face when speaking in public about her. No longer. Kamala Harris has, officially, become persona non grata in the Democratic Party. 

How can we tell? How about this…the Washington Post has, semi-officially, excommunicated her with one of the harshest piece I have ever seen from the Editorial Board that is not aimed at Donald Trumpo=.

The @washingtonpost editorial board is done with Kamala Harris:

“The best that can be said about Harris’s step back into the spotlight is that it’s happening now. Democrats have a real shot at victory in 2028, but they won’t have time to waste on someone like the former vice… pic.twitter.com/L6p9KMmOOf

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 28, 2025

This is not an opinion piece from some high muckety-muck from within the Democratic Party–that would just be an indication of what we already know, which is that there is a power play going on within the party. One would expect that there is, since everybody is jockying for position in the race to take over the party in anticipation of a fight for primacy within the party. 

No, this is the editorial board itself, which is the editorial voice of one of the most influential papers in the country, speaking for the entire political elite.

No one, perhaps not even Kamala Harris, knows for certain whether Kamala Harris really wants to be president. The promotional tour for her new book hasn’t cleared up that mystery, but it has reminded the country why most Americans did not want her in the White House.

On Monday, Harris offered her first major interview since leaving office, to a predictably deferential MSNBC. Yet even on friendly turf, the former vice president seemed uncomfortable and inauthentic.

Ouch. That has got to hurt, and they haven’t even begun to rip the bark off the failed candidate who has disappointed voters since 2019, despite all the help one could possibly get from Pravda. 

Is Harris a brilliant political mind who simply freezes up in front of cameras? Alas, taking the time to organize her thoughts in writing doesn’t help much. Indeed, virtually every page of her book, “107 Days,” offers a glaring reminder of why she failed to close the deal.

Much of the book is score-settling that ought to be beneath an aspiring president — the sort of small-mindedness that Democrats rightly knock President Donald Trump for. 

Believe it or not, being compared to Donald Trump was not meant to be a compliment. You may have yet to figure it out over the past decade, but it turns out that, in the eyes of The Washington Post, being compared to Donald Trump, especially when discussing his temperament, is meant to be less than flattering. 

A once and perhaps future presidential candidate should have a better grasp on what presidential leadership sounds like, even in a self-serving memoir. Instead, Harris creates the image of herself as an A student who tells interviewers her greatest weakness is that she’s just too much of a perfectionist.

The best that can be said about Harris’s step back into the spotlight is that it’s happening now. Democrats have a real shot at victory in 2028, but they won’t have time to waste on someone like the former vice president.

As many political observers have noted, Harris is not making any friends with her book tour, and while being less than kind to former president Joe Biden is not likely to be disqualifying for Harris, she has been crapping all over the entire political class, and they were unlikely to view her lashing out at them charitably. 

She is, after all, a two-time loser whose only victories have been with the major assists of the establishment. In California, it was Willie Brown who pushed her over the top in every effort she ever made, and at the national level, she was elevated by Joe Biden, whose circle hated her for her attacks on the former Vice President and future president as a racist. 

“We’ve seen stories now criticizing the book tour, her performance, some scathing stuff,” says @MarkHalperin about Kamala Harris. “What we haven’t seen is the Bidens, including Hunter Biden, come at her. And I think if the Bidens read the full book, they’ll see there’s even more… pic.twitter.com/FXihKm4RY7

— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) September 26, 2025

She was picked due to her race and gender–no sane person denies that, given her evident lack of political skills and her appalling performance as Vice President, and even with a multi-billion-dollar assist from donors and the invaluable help of Pravda, which promoted her as a modern Joan of Arc, she still failed to take out the hated Donald Trump. 

Crapping on them all in her book was a bad move, and The Washington Post is acting as the collective voice of the Establishment, driving a rhetorical stake through her heart. 

Writing a book was a terrible way to cash in on her fleeting fame; she should have sought and accepted a safe sinecure at some university, as Chesa Boudin did. It was the best deal on offer, but she didn’t read the room. 

Unlike Biden, who did a lot of favors for people over the years, she has been a net drain on the Democrats’ political and financial reserves, and she is acting as if she is owed instead of owing favors. 

Kamala Harris “is being panned for the book and picking fights with lots of Democrats, including the Bidens, who’ve been quiet so far,” says @MarkHalperin. “But trust me — if she keeps it up, they will not be quiet.” #KamalaHarris #Bidens @2waytvapp pic.twitter.com/HdiXwyHHWQ

— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) September 23, 2025

Apparently, she actually believed that she was a hot property, not an inconvenient embarrassment. Because of that, she has offended the gods of the Democratic Party establishment, and in return, they have declared her a “waste of time.” 

It may be that they will still offer her a deal to go away–she IS the “first” African American/Asian American female Vice President, and among Democrats that probably means SOMETHING. Letting her starve in the streets of Portland or San Francisco would be embarrassing to them, too. 

But the Washington Post is signaling, her value is rapidly diminishing. It is a long way from “Brat Summer” and the most-funded candidate in history to where she is now. All she has to offer to her “supporters” is a semi-graceful exit. 

She should take it. Now. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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