David Brooks on Hype for VP Harris: I Don’t Know Whether This Is ‘Mass Hypnosis’ or She Really Has Grown

‘Because the Kamala Harris of 2020 was a terrible, terrible candidate’

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BROOKS: "I just think the huge question for me is, how much has she grown? How much has she learned? How much is she more comfortable? Because the Kamala Harris of 2020 was a terrible, terrible candidate. And, frankly, if you go back to the Democratic conventional wisdom about Kamala Harris 18 months ago, it was, 'Failed vice president. How do we get her off the ticket?' And so the Democratic Party has shifted. And I don't know whether this is mass hypnosis or they think, oh, she really has grown. She's a — when she gets to be her own candidate, she's much better than she was in 2020, much better than she was in '22."

(via RealClearPolitics)

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