Identity Politics and Participation Trophies

Last week ,California Senator Kamala Harris made the announcement that we all knew was coming-- she was ending her presidential campaign.

Earlier this year, when she kicked off her campaign, she was met with cheering crowds and enthusiasm, as she regurgitated bland talking points. As time progressed, it became more and more clear that Senator Harris was, as they say in Texas, “all hat and no cattle.”

Her display during the Brett Kavanaugh judicial inquisition was appalling, just more bloviating. However, after the first Democrat [Socialist] party presidential debate, she was the talk of the town. She came out and took over the stage, not a very strenuous task. She took on the presumed frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, and gave her little-girl-in-California bus segregation story.

That was it; Kamala Harris became that which the left loves to embrace, a victim. As well, she also evidenced something even greater that the progressive socialist left in America seeks out. Senator Kamala Harris was female and Black, she checked off identity politics boxes.