Kamala Harris may live to regret exposing her ruthlessness with bogus busing attack on Biden

Kamala Harris is scary in her pathological ambition, moral flexibility, comfort with deception, and sheer ruthlessness. She may have erred in prematurely exposing those traits in the very first round of Democrat presidential debates, allowing her competitors to recognize the threat she poses to all of them and to formulate appropriate countermeasures.

Twitter video screen grab (cropped). Of course, these traits are to some degree shared by almost anyone who wants to run for president. No normal person is willing to make the sacrifices we demand of our candidates for commander-in-chief. There has to be an inner fire, a desire that overshadows other normal human impulses. But in order to make life tolerable for everyone in a political party, certain norms operate to keep the conflict within bounds and to avoid frightening the general public too much about the character of the party's leadership class.