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Wow. One might almost think that this article was intended to be critical not of Harris, but of the WaPo itself. Surely all of these points might be directed back toward an editorial staff that is now attempting to assume a mantle of objectivity where absolutely nothing like that is even remotely possible. This is a company rag in a company town and Harris was doing nothing more than reciting the company line. As dictated by the WaPo. This, for example:

the editorial board described how the Biden administration still "covered for him" "to the bitter end." It called out White House stenographers for changing the transcript to try and lessen the damage of his "garbage" comments from recent weeks.

Substitute a little long-due and little-written self-criticism and it reads:

the editorial board described how the Washington Post still "covered for him" "to the bitter end." It called out Washington Post reporters and editors for changing the transcript to try and lessen the damage of his "garbage" comments from recent weeks.

And yes,

"All of this took a toll on believability."

What else took a toll? Well, the WaPo staff members threatening to resign en masse for the failure of senior management to allow them to endorse Harris is a case in point. Hardly the actions of a group of impartial judges handing down a critique from Mount Olympus. The real topic under discussion - or it should be - is why the public disdained not just the Democrats, but the Post itself for carrying banners for them.

I’d make Bruce Springsteen sing him a song on Joe Rogan’s podcast first.

it’s the visor in the cloak’s hood that makes the whole thing work

Yup. Otherwise it's just a red robe and people might mistake you for the Pope or something.

We had honest citizens allegedly held at gunpoint by a SWAT team for five hours and their house ransacked based on an anonymous complaint about a pet violation. This isn’t about squirrels.

Kamala. You know, the wrestler whose real last name was Harris?

I'd say he's done OK:

The Obamas bought an 8,200 sq ft home in the Kalorama district of the nation's capital for $8.1million in 2017.
Their 6,892 sq ft Martha's Vineyard, house on a 29.3-acre estate is estimated to be worth $14million by Realtor.com.
They have owned their six-bed red-brick Georgian home in Chicago since 2004.
But the jewel in their real estate crown is now their three-acre compound on O'ahu – the Hawaiian island where Obama was born – with stunning views over Waimanalo Bay.
It has been under construction since Obama bought it for $8.7million in 2015

$30 million at the time of purchase (I'd guess quite a more now) plus whatever the Chicago crib is worth. Not bad on a $400K salary. Big Mike must have quite the piggy bank.

A performance by Alanis Morissette was reportedly canceled to save money.

Somebody's agent gets the credit here for demanding the money up front.

Serious infantilism issues here.

At Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, a 'Self-Care Suite' for students offered students the chance to play with Legos, doodle with crayons, and munch on milk and cookies 'in recognition of these stressful times,'

These are our future policy makers. A lot of things are becoming clearer here...

the planet is already set to warm by more than 3 °C over preindustrial levels in the coming decades.

How many decades? A hundred or so? And being "set to" by whom, exactly?

They could try finding a decent candidate for a start.

Pity it isn’t a hundred.

Sounds like somebody is reading FR.

“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.”

Deep-state Quisling wants a do-over. I’ll bet he does.

Smuggling coal to Newcastle, sand to the Sahara. A case of 7.62x39 will run about 450 bucks online. And they’ll deliver.

When you consider the monumental labor involved in finally unseating George Gascon, you realize just how deeply the Soros corruption has taken root.

I’m so old I remember when “Untouchables” meant incorruptible. My, have times changed. These have, so long as they were a bulwark of the administrative state, been untouchable all right, with the occasional passenger thrown to the wolves to keep them from upsetting the sled. An organization formed from lawyers, accountants, and armed thugs turned out to be very corruptible after all. Should have seen that one coming.

As a self-proclaimed scholar of the field Ben might be well advised to crack a few more books. The cold truth is that "competent technocracy" and Kamala Harris don't belong in the same sentence and substitution of her name for any of the other gobbling drones on the Left won't help his theory any. If that's what the Dems actually were trying to achieve they missed by a country mile.

Established governments grow corruption like old ship hulls grow barnacles, and if the ones entrusted with hull maintenance can't or won't scrape it, the owners will. And corruption is very much an issue with the government of the United States in its present form. Nor is it restricted to any one political party. A very great deal of public money is ending up in the pockets of a very few under the guise of war, social justice, and any other scam a very creative criminal class has devised. And what Rhodes considers competent technocrats turns out to be just one more mask worn by that criminal class. We can do this the hard way or the harder one, there is no easy way, but it's going to be done.

Single factor analysis is inherently inadequate, but the point Jones is making is one that the Dems should have seen coming. The battleground is no longer in the keeping of talking suits on TV but has expanded to span the stiletto-sharp concision of Internet memes all the way to relaxed, three-hour conversations that can’t sell soap but do sell podcasts. And the near monolithic control over that media that the Left had achieved over the years meant that the winning fish weren’t noticing that the pond was drying up around them. Corporate media will change or die.