Earl Ofari Hutchinson
If there was ever a more radical contrast in a White House than what Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris and GOP presidential contender Donald Trump offer the nation, it’s hard to imagine. Harris to hear Trump tell it is a far left radical, even Marxist tinged potential destroyer of the American system.
Trump to hear Harris tell it is a fascist, dictatorial, autocrat potential destroyer of the American system. Putting aside the hard-nosed campaign lambasting of each other, the only pertinent question is just what their White Houses offer the nation.
The Harris White House
There has been much guesswork about Harris’s more than two decades of political office holding. She was variously branded a moderate, liberal progressive, a consummate political insider, and a political chameleon
prone to change even flip flop on positions. None of these descriptions did much to help determine exactly what a Harris White House would look like and mean for the country.
Harris added her own tiny element of mystery about her governance once in the Oval Office in a 2019 interview with the New York Times, ““Policy has to be relevant, “That’s my guiding principle: Is it relevant? Not, ‘Is it a beautiful sonnet?’”
The Harris White House, then, will be a careful blend of Biden’ administration policies. It will tweak, modify, add onto, and in some cases depart from those policies on the major foreign and domestic issues from immigration to abortion to the economy.
It will defend transgender rights, and labor protections. It will stress racial and gender diversity in staff, cabinet, and agency head appointments. It will select moderate to liberal jurists for federal judiciary appointments and particularly the SCOTUS. It will revisit with Congress passage of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Harris will be confronted with and battle continuously against fierce GOP congressional opposition. She will be forced as Obama was because of the stiff congressional intransigence, duck, dodge, stall, and subvert her agenda to issue lots of executive orders on key policy issues.
The military will continue to get every penny and more it demands for its already gargantuan budget. It will receive virtually all its requests for military hardware and technology.
The Harris White House then will have some resemblance to an Obama and Biden 2 White House. But with small and in some place