Democrats have been institutionally bad for democracy. And the woman they anointed leader of their party this summer – despite her not winning a single presidential primary vote – is among the worst of them.

During her 2019 campaign for president, Harris promised all manner of extra-constitutional executive dictates, including mass confiscation of guns. That proposal was so blatantly illegal that Biden told her on the Democratic primary debate stage that it would be an impossibility in America.

She laughed in his face: 'Hey Joe, instead of saying no we can't, let's say yes we can.'

That dictatorial impulse has persisted.