I used to believe Ronald Reagan’s description of America as the shining city on a hill that was the “last best hope” of freedom in the civilized world. In her few short weeks as the Presidential “nominee” of the Democrats, Kamala Harris has repeatedly veered toward replacing President Reagan’s vision with a new, depressing vision of the United States.
Forget that she’s way too close for comfort in many polls to being elected the most powerful person in what we used to call the “free world” – she could do so after having received not a single vote from anyone…not even from one the millions of illegals she’s help shepherd across our southern border.
Each morning brings fresh new evidence that this woman is quite simply the most unqualified candidate ever to seek the White House…and getting worse by the day. This week, for example, she called for ending degree requirements for about 500,000 federal jobs she would control as chief executive. So in addition to demanding “good paying jobs”—most of which she would steer toward her cronies in Big Labor—Kamala Harris says “For far too long, our nation has encouraged only one path to success: a four-year college degree….our nation needs to recognize the value of other paths.”
So Harris—in the hip pocket of thugs at the American Federation of Teachers who already have turned public schools in America into barely-functioning daycare centers which crank out illiterate, socially awkward mopes whose brains can barely generate enough electricity to move their feet—now proposes to devalue secondary education by eliminating degree requirements for federal jobs and vows to “challenge the private sector to do the same.”
Cruising around the radio dial shortly after Harris’s astounding anti-degree rant, I happened upon the Urban Voice channel on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. A host named Clay Cane on “The Cane Nation” show was actually applauding Harris’s idiotic proposal, implying it would help “black jobseekers.” (This affirmation of Harris’s disgraceful implication that holding job applicants to higher standards somehow harms minorities, recalls George W. Bush’s famous phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”) But that’s Kamala Harris’s victim mentality for you.
On the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised a separate but also very alarming event which occurred just scant weeks before our November 5th elections. 6
Johnson noted that the Harris/Biden administration flew Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to America on a military aircraft…then steered him into a campaign style event in Pennsylvania headlined by Democrats running for the U.S. Senate and House.
“Zelensky was accompanied at that stop by the Governor of Pennsylvania who was almost the Vice-Presidential nominee with Kamala Harris. No Republicans were present because none were invited,” Johnson stated, adding: “That is not what the President of Ukraine in its desperate time of national defense needs to be doing and we let him know about that.” (Zelensky had a private meeting with former President Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday, but Harris’s engineering him into partisan politics the previous day still set the stage for future bad blood on Capitol Hill.)
Democrats love to chant the mantra of Arizona’s John McCain, whose 2008 campaign slogan was “Country First.” Just this week as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the final time as President, Joe Biden told assembled world leaders that he stepped down this year because “while I love my job, I love my country more.” (Okay, okay, we all know he was shoved off the national ticket in a bloodless coup…but don’t interrupt Joe when he’s on a roll.)
Do Democrats really put their country first?
Of course not. If they DID, they wouldn’t be backing a manifestly unqualified candidate whose primary charge over the past three years was to act as Border Czar for Joe Biden. (When NBC News anchor Lester Holt challenged Harris because she had never actually visited the U.S. Border, her response—available on video was: “I haven’t been to Europe either. I don’t understand the point you’re making.”)
She also hasn’t ever operated a business…hasn’t had to meet a payroll…was a key lynchpin in the hugest foreign policy embarrassment in American history as the Taliban literally chased America out of Afghanistan, killing 13 military heroes in the process…and she maddeningly continues to cast a blind eye to the murders, rapes and untold millions in stolen property at the hands of illegals she and Joe Biden rolled out the welcome mat for on the Mexican border. Lord only knows who she’d tap as a Supreme Court nominee!
A real Democrat like John Fitzgerald Kennedy wouldn’t have voted for Kamala Harris. Neither would Democratic U.S. Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. Or the late 4-term Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. Harry Truman wouldn’t have voted for her, and neither would FDR. Those Democrats actually stood for principles, and really would have put America’s interests ahead of anything else including a desire for partisan political power.
But here in 2024, millions of Democrats—whether office seekers or just average voters—are blinded by an unreasoned hatred of Donald Trump. Everything from the slanted, irresponsible “news” stories about him cranked out 24/7, right down to their spineless whining that “I don’t like his mean Tweets.” Completely moronic and dangerous, but that’s how a disturbing number of them think.
Which is why the rest of us had better get to the polls any way possible—whether via mail-in ballots or early voting or, yes, standing in line on November 5th—to cancel out the votes of hollow heads who would risk weakening America even further on the world stage by electing a giant zero like Kamala Harris just because of a few mean Tweets.
China, North Korea, Russia and Iran—oh, and the Democratic Party—hope you won’t Make America Great Again by electing Donald Trump as our 47th President. I’m praying that you will.
Tom Tradup is Vice President/News & Talk Programming for Dallas-based Salem Radio Network and serves as Executive Producer of THIS WEEK ON THE HILL heard on leading radio stations nationwide, and broadcast Saturdays at 10am Eastern time on the Salem News Channel.