Kamala Harris and The Problem With The I’m Every Person Persona

Since the moment that she announced that she was withdrawing from the presidential campaign on December 2nd, there has been no shortage of commentary from journalists, pundits, cultural critics, armchair psychologists and other assorted common folk assessing what went wrong for Kamala Harris Social media, print and electronic media, a few political scientists as well as other academics to name just a few have frantically engaged in days later quarterbacking, pontificating on “what went wrong” for the junior senator from California. It has been an intense several days. The varied analysis has been nothing short of dizzying. Well guess what? I am adding my assessment to the political fray.

Once thought to be one of the most promising 2020 democratic candidates for president, the former California Attorney general (the first Black woman to serve in the position), never seemed able to capture any significant level of political traction for her campaign. Save for a brief few weeks mid -summer when she took former Delaware senator and vice-president Joe Biden to task for his past positions on school busing and others issues in which he fondly reminisced working with staunchly segregationist senators further referring to such times as the good days of Washington. Indeed, such ill stated comments immediately placed Biden and his campaign on the…