Left-Wing New Republic Hails Kamala Harris as ‘Historic’ Figure Surpassing Kennedy, ObamaJoshua Klein 25 Aug 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is “a completely different person than the one most of us had fixed in our mind” and is more than a “female Obama,” according to a glowing portrayal in the New Republic that suggests Harris even surpasses historical Democrat icon former President John F. Kennedy in significance.
In a Friday essay, the far-left magazine heaped praise upon presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, positioning her as a transformative figure who unexpectedly unified the Democratic Party following her DNC speech accepting the party’s nomination without having received a single vote.
The piece, titled “The Female Obama? No. Kamala Harris Is More Than That” and penned by New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, opens by acknowledging the longstanding tension within the Democratic Party between those who are “forward-looking” and those who are more cautious.
However, it claims the division was overcome during Harris’s “electric speech” on Thursday night, largely due to her leadership.
“For my entire adult life, there have been two Democratic parties,” the author writes. “Now, there is one.”
“And Harris — amazingly, surprisingly, but forcefully and unmistakably — is the author of that unity,” he added.
Calling the 2024 presidential contender a “historic figure,” the essay lauds her as having “risen to this occasion,” with “her poise, her power, her sure-footedness [having] been just breathtaking to watch.”
It also describes her as a “badass” who figuratively “said to every Democrat from left to center: We have one future, and I am the person who is taking us there.”
Praising her for uniting the Democratic Party, it describes her rhetoric as “Kennedyesque,” while asserting that “we’ve never seen a Black woman” move history forward like this.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/25/left-wing-new-republic-hails-kamala-harris-historic-figure-surpassing-kennedy-obama/
