Harris’ 2024 Platform: More of the Same Biden Failures
As the apocryphal Einstein quote goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I guess we know who’s insane then.
The DNC is in full swing and as part of the festivities, the party has released its 2024 policy platform. And unfortunately for America, it looks to be more of the same. Maybe a little bit too much of the same.
Keen-eyed commentators were quick to notice that the document appeared to be almost entirely unchanged from when Biden was still the nominee. A quick Ctrl-F of the platform returns 287 hits for Biden and a mere 32 for Harris. Candidate Harris’ VP pick, Tim Walz, doesn’t even make an appearance.
It’s embarrassing for sure, and there’s definitely some DNC intern who’ll need to dust off his resume. But the far larger story here is that in the face of wildly ineffective and unpopular policy, the Democrats have decided to double down. They might as well keep the document the same since it appears Harris’ administration will be a continuation of Biden’s with some communist-inspired additions.
One place this refusal to change policy is clearest is on the border, where Democrats seem hellbent on exacerbating the crisis. The 2024 platform says Democrats support the U.S. Citizenship
Act which “would permanently increase family-sponsored and employment-based immigration.
The bipartisan border legislation would increase the number of immigrant visas that are
available by 250,000 over 5 years.” Not mentioned is that the legislation would also serve as the start to mass amnesty for the nearly 10 million illegal migrants currently in the country.
Biden came under fire early on in his administration over what many viewed as an “open invitation” for illegal migrants to enter the country. A plan for mass amnesty backed by the corpse on Pennsylvania Ave. and his replacement would make things worse, incentivizing yet another wave of border-hoppers to make their way into the country.
Not content to obliterate America’s sovereignty by destroying the border, Dems have also doubled down on failed green initiatives.
From the document, “As the climate crisis makes the shift to clean energy more urgent, we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, making the world’s biggest investment ever in building renewable energy, electric vehicles, and other green technologies here at home.”
About that. The Heritage Foundation broke down the numbers and found that the vast majority of climate funding from the IRA was just increased government bloat. As former Heritage scholar Katie Tubb noted, the proposal contained such ludicrous boondoggles like “$60 billion for “environmental justice,” which means anything from electric Post Office trucks to whatever “educational program” a climate extremist can imagine.”
The administration also insisted that rebates and government incentives to buy electric cars, along with a stick to prevent them from buying gas cars, would be enough to electrify the road. Two years on, EV’s are still a massive minority on the road, and the percentage of new EVs being sold is stalling.
All that for the low, low price of a couple billion taxpayer dollars. What a steal!
When she’s not ripping her policy ideas from Biden, Kamala Harris is stealing them from the Trump campaign. At a June rally in Nevada, Trump said he would eliminate taxes on tips if he was given the keys to the White House. Harris decided that was a good idea and said she was going to do it too.
When J.D. Vance called to expand the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child, the Harris campaign immediately announced families should get $6,000 dollars instead.
I’m noticing a pattern here…
But let’s be fair to Harris. She has had some ideas of her own. Like instituting price controls on groceries. Harris has stated that she would “federal ban on price gauging (sic) on food” which sounds a lot like how things were in the USSR.
Instead of learning from the repeated and glaring shortcomings of the Biden administration, Harris is primed to repeat the past and reinforce her boss’ worst hits. To make matters worse, Harris wants to leave her mark with some awful policies of her own. From border security to economic strategy, it’s all terrible.
As the apocryphal Einstein quote goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I guess we know who’s insane then.