How Can Presidential Candidates Be So Silly?
By George Will
July 7, 2019 6:30 AM
Many Democrats striving to replace Donald Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.
If California senator Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: private health insurance. Her 22 weeks of contradictory statements, and her Trumpian meretriciousness about her contradictions, reveal a frivolity about upending health care’s complex 18 percent of America’s economy. And her bumblings illustrate how many of the Democratic presidential aspirants, snug in their intellectual silos, have lost — if they ever had — an aptitude for talking like, and to, normal Americans.
Seven days after announcing her candidacy in January, Harris, appearing on CNN, endorsed “Medicare for All†and was asked: So, people “who like their [private] insurance, they don’t get to keep it?†She answered: “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. . . . Let’s eliminate all of that.†More government, less paperwork. Really.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/democratic-presidential-candidates-imitate-trump-strategy/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=nationalreview.com&utm_term=69019&utm_content=1
