Kamala Harris did a spectacular job of laying out the plans for both her presidency, and the dangers of a Trump second term during her acceptance speech at the DNC this Thursday.
Harris whacked Trump for everything from his role in the January 6th insurrection, to his plans to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, to his criminality, to the corrupt Supreme Court wanting to give him immunity for all of it and imagining what a second term would be like with no leash on Trump.
HARRIS: Fellow Americans, this election is not only the most important of our lives, it is one of the most important in the life of our nation.
In many ways, Donald Trump is an un-serious man… but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.
Consider, consider, not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election.
Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes. When he failed, he sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol where they assaulted law enforcement officers.
When politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob and send help, he did the opposite. He fanned the flames.
And now, for an entirely different set of crimes, he was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday Americans, and separately, and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse.
And consider, consider, what he intends to do if we give him power again. Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists, who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol.
His explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy.
His explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens.
Consider, consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution.
Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails… and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States.
Not to improve your life. Not to strengthen our national security. But to serve the only client he has ever had… himself.
And we know, and we know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in project 2025, written by his closest advisers, and its sum total is to pull our country back to the past but America, we are not going back.
We are not going back. We are not going back.
We are not going back to when Donald Trump tried to cut Social Security and Medicare. We are not going back to when he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, when insurance companies could deny people with per-existing conditions.
We are not going to let him eliminate the Department of Education that funds our public schools.
We are not going to let him end programs like Head Start that provides preschool and childcare for our children. America, we are not going back.
And we are charting and we are charting a new way forward.
Forward, to a future where a strong and growing middle class, because we know a strong w middle class has always been critical to America’s success and building that middle-class will be a defining goal of my presidency.
Harris hit all the right notes with this speech. I’m sure the catsup bottles were flying a Mar-a-Lago this Thursday evening.
