• memfree@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    I became impressed with Harris during the Impeachment hearings. She was smart, a bit sarcastic, and got as far as she could given the situation. Lots of other people basically wasted their time, but she was stellar.

    I think she got a raw deal by getting stuck with ‘immigration duty’ since that’s been an issue for decades and only getting more histrionic, so the deck was loaded against her.

    Yeah, I hear complaints that she shoulda/coulda done more in California, but the very few examples I’ve given a look seemed like reasonable can’t-please-everyone issues. Perhaps I need to get more educated, but there’s only so much time in the day.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t care much for good personality in politicians, plenty of politicians with great personalities have gone on to do awful things, plenty with awful personalities have done great things. I care far more about the issues they campaign on and policies they’ve pushed through in the past.

      Haris seemed to drop and pick up policy positions during the 2020 primary purely based on what her team thought would advance polling numbers. Which makes me skeptical of any claimed positions without concrete evidence of commitment.