{"id":283,"date":"2024-10-23T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:56:29","slug":"good-article-the-chronically-underestimated-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Good article: &#8220;The Chronically Underestimated Kamala Harris&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860d7a889200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kamala harris underestimated\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202e860d7a889200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860d7a889200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Kamala harris underestimated\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From National Review online. Should be free to read &#8211; no paywall. If I had to place a bet on who is going to win in &#8211; I&#39;m afraid it&#39;s &quot;Madame President&quot;.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-chronically-underestimated-kamala-harris\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=featured-writers&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The Chronically Underestimated Kamala Harris<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>On the menu today: I have no beef with Charlie Cooke\u2019s brilliant trilogy, \u201c<a data-testid=\"dynamic-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/07\/joe-biden-is-an-asshole\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A-hole<\/a>, <a data-testid=\"dynamic-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/09\/donald-trump-is-still-a-lunatic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lunatic<\/a>, <a data-testid=\"dynamic-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/10\/kamala-harris-is-an-idiot\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Idiot<\/a>.\u201d But I do think the caricature of Kamala Harris as a bumbling dunce makes it easy to underestimate her, particularly in the closing weeks of an exceptionally close and high-stakes presidential campaign. Harris\u2019s past is littered with older and more experienced men who saw her as easy pickings and came up short on Election Day. Read on to learn how Harris\u2019s political career got started, her connection to Clint Eastwood, how she persuaded the wealthiest and most powerful elites of San Francisco to back her when she was a little-known underdog, the BMW she received as a gift, who ended her relationship with Willie Brown, and the speculation that Halle Berry would play her in a movie someday.<\/p>\n<p>******************************<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 if Kamala Harris is as stupid as her critics claim, why does she have the Democratic presidential nomination and a roughly 50\u201350 shot of being the first female president in U.S. history? Do you know how many ruthlessly ambitious Democratic men and women have desperately yearned to get where she is? How many smart, tough, shrewd, often underhanded and cold-blooded pols have tried to claw their way up the greasy pole and fallen short?<\/p>\n<p>And somehow this supposed dunce managed to do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From National Review online. Should be free to read &#8211; no paywall. If I had to place a bet on who is going to win in &#8211; I&#39;m afraid it&#39;s &quot;Madame President&quot;. The Chronically Underestimated Kamala Harris On the menu today: I have no beef with Charlie Cooke\u2019s brilliant trilogy, \u201cA-hole, Lunatic, Idiot.\u201d But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}