CNN host Fareed Zakaria listed three main causes Vice President Kamala Harris got here up woefully brief towards Donald Trump in final week’s election – and even knocked Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg in his takedown of Democrats on Sunday.
Zakaria claimed the Biden administration’s poor dealing with of the southern border, an “overzealous misuse of the law to punish Trump,” and the left’s infatuation with “identity politics” all fueled Trump’s victory final Tuesday wherein he nabbed 312 electoral votes.
The primary error dedicated by the Democratic Social gathering was its “blindness to the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos at the border,” Zakaria mentioned on his cable tv present.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria issued his post-election evaluation of the 2024 election. X / @FareedZakaria
“An asylum system that was meant for a small number of persecuted individuals was being used by millions to gain legal entry,” he mentioned. “Instead of shutting it down, liberals branded anyone protesting as heartless and racist. They missed a massive shift in American public opinion in just a few years.”
When Harris, 60, appeared on “The View” and infamously mentioned she wouldn’t do something totally different from the Biden White Home, she ought to have mentioned she would’ve “shut down the border sooner,” Zakaria argued.
Zakaria additionally insisted the “overzealous misuse of law to punish Trump” strengthened his stature within the eyes of voters after public opinion had soured on him following the riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The CNN host mentioned the “most egregious” instance was the case pursued by Bragg, the lefty district legal professional in Manhattan. He famous that whereas Bragg was as soon as skeptical of prosecuting the case over falsifying enterprise data, he confronted strain from the left to launch the indictment.
Harris misplaced to Trump final Tuesday. AFP through Getty Photographs
“Some cases, like the Georgia one, were legitimate, but the host of them piled on in rapid succession, gave the impression that the legal system was being weaponized to get Trump,” he mentioned.
“It confirmed to his base what it had always believed — that over-educated urban liberals were hypocrites, happy to bend rules and norms when it suited their purposes.”
Trump, 78, was convicted of 34 felony counts within the Manhattan case this previous June and nonetheless confronted two federal trials and a state case in Georgia that accused him of unlawfully interfering with the Peach State’s 2020 election end result. These remaining instances are not anticipated to proceed.
Zakaria lastly slammed Democrats over the “dominance of identity politics on the left” that he argued has alienated many Individuals outdoors the city educational bubble.
He mentioned Latinos discovered it bizarre when liberals began utilizing the gender-neutral phrase Latinx.
“This kind of obsession made Democrats view people too much through their ethnic or racial or gender identities and it made them miss for example that working-class Latinos were moving toward Trump, perhaps because they were socially conservative or liked his macho rhetoric or even agreed with his hardline stance on immigration,” he mentioned.
The CNN host added the left’s deal with id politics and its alleged battle on free speech through “cancel culture” has develop into “illiberal.”
“Liberals cannot achieve liberal goals — however virtuous — by illiberal means,” Zakaria mentioned.
