Kamala Harris exposes the GOP's radicalism
It has been quite a show as President Trump and the Republicans moved feverishly — and at times hysterically — from one attack line against Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) to another.
In one instant, former vice president Joe Biden’s running mate is a dangerous left-winger. Then, suddenly, she’s a “top cop” and an unprincipled sellout to the progressive cause. She is, as all women who oppose Trump are eventually labeled, “nasty.”
And it was only a matter of time before we were treated to another round of tired, old, libelous birtherism. Hey, the U.S.-born Harris is the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, so in the Trumpian worldview, there must be something wrong. The greatest hits of racism and nativism keep on coming.
But this manic incoherence speaks to a larger problem for a radicalized Republican Party: They have moved so far to the right that they see even moderation as socialist radicalism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/15/kamala-harris-exposes-gops-radicalism/