When Trump was in office, the average year-over-year inflation rate was 1.9 percent. It has soared under Biden-Harris, making it the number-one issue for voters. Under Trump, illegal immigration was tamed, but under Biden-Harris it has quadrupled, making it the number-two issue for voters. Crime has increased dramatically under Biden (and the figures don’t include the growing number of crimes that are going unapprehended), making it the number-three issue for voters.
Kamala Harris disagrees. She will be in Texas today, assisted by Beyonce, and all she will talk about is abortion. She’s obsessed with it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a staunch champion of abortion rights, is advising against this approach. “She has to start talking more to the needs of working-class people.” But she won’t, and that is why blue-collar workers have abandoned the Democrats in favor of Trump.
Every honest person knows that abortion kills the innocent. Are not gender-reveal parties and baby showers tacit proof of this? After all, what are they celebrating? In a backhanded way, Harris recently appeared to acknowledge this verity.
A few weeks ago, in a Town Hall event, she said, “I’ll tell you, there are probably many here and watching who, rightly, have made a decision that they do not believe in abortion. The point that I am making is not about changing their mind about what’s right for them or their family.”
It’s quite a concession to say that those who are pro-life have “rightly” made their decision. No one, including her, would say that those who believe in racial discrimination have “rightly” made that decision. That’s because there is no moral justification for it. But to concede that there is a moral justification to oppose abortion begs the question: What is it that pro-life Americans are objecting to?
However, Harris’ conviction that it is okay for Americans to “rightly” oppose abortion doesn’t matter much to her. In her interview with NBC this week, she was asked if she would make religious exemptions for those who in good conscience cannot ascribe to her pro-abortion policies. She said no.
“I don’t think that we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.” But there is a fundamental freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment, that guarantees religious liberty, and conscience rights are at the heart of it. Nonetheless, that doesn’t seem to matter. She is so thoroughly secular in her views that religious liberty means little. Indeed, those who believe in it are told to find another rally.
Inflation, illegal immigration, crime—none of them matter to those who are fixated on abortion. And no one is more fixated than Kamala Harris. If she loses the election, this will be one of the major reasons why. She is not only acting immorally, she is acting irrationally.
