For Chait, the problem with the Democratic Party in the last 10 years is that it’s been run by the far left, and now, finally, that the centrist moderates he’s a part of are reclaiming power. The pivotal moment, to Chait, was an ad cut by the Trump campaign using an answer Harris gave in 2019 to a question from the American Civil Liberties Union on the rights of trans incarcerated people, an example of what the pundit called an “edgy, leftist policy commitment in a campaign that consisted of little else.” Choosing the position that Harris took on trans rights in prisons in 2020 as the defining issue of the campaign conveniently lets the party off the hook for having nothing of substance to offer an angry electorate.
Author: Eoin Higgins
Published at: 2025-10-07 21:18:38
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