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US Establishment's old dogs show new tricks
Tracing Kamala Harris’s meteoric elevation to presidential candidate's sidekick is as intriguing as it is revelatory - despite significant shortcomings, writes Helen Mercer
Kamala Harris, speaks at a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Kamala Harris and the Future of America
by Caleb Maupin, Centre for Political Innovation £7.49
In this short but thought-provoking book, centred on the person of Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Caleb Maupin dissects the current ruptures within the US ruling class around which the current election revolves, and the cultural developments influencing and, by implication, disarming their leftist critics. It is not written to endorse either candidate and the book’s interest will endure whoever wins on November 3.
Harris was born into the Berkeley new left of the 1960s (her father was a Marxian economist), yet the book is centred on the contrast between that background and her unedifying and disturbing political record.
As attorney general of California from 2010 to 2017 she did nothing for the poor, black constituencies she claims to represent, and has been characterised as the “Queen of mass incarceration.”
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