But no, the blame begins with none other than Kamala Harris. I can think of no more brutally honest way to describe her entire political life than as a fundamental error with historical consequences. Harris quite simply chose the wrong career path. A politician like Harris should never have existed in a just world — naturally, this is why she hails from California. She should never have even been in a position to run for the presidency. She was and remains a mindless cipher whose sole previous success had come from a lifetime spent slavishly slicking and shucking her way up the greasy pole of California politics: a land where merit and intellect matter vastly less than do demographic profile, looks, and availability. (I don’t even think it would be possible for me to carry on a conversation with her as an intellectual equal — much like her home city of Oakland, there simply is no “there” there. Utter vacuity.)