"One could be forgiven for not noticing, but Vice President Kamala Harris did make her campaign's closing argument speech Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. To be fair, the little notice it received is not entirely her fault, for as she was making her remarks to a big crowd, President Joe Biden was making his own remarks, calling all Trump supporters 'garbage,' which drew everyone's attention away from Harris.

"Harris's speech nevertheless deserves attention. This is not because it was an exception but because it was an entirely pedestrian and unexceptional dribble of words that could have been given by any other Democrat in the last 100 years. That is a key problem with Harris's bid for the White House.

"Like many other Democrats before her, Harris promised to 'seek common ground and commonsense solutions.' She claimed she was 'not looking to score political points.' To that end, and this is the really weird and troubling part, she promised to end 'division, chaos, and mutual distrust' by pledging 'to listen to experts.'

"Democrats have yearned for, promised, and attempted government by the experts since at least as far back as the Woodrow Wilson administration. From President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration to President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, Democrats have relied on experts to make more and more economic and social policy decisions. This has been done at the expense of citizens, at the expense of democracy, and for more than 100 years, the results have been disastrous."

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"As one of the most contentious presidential elections in history heads to the wire, Washington, D.C.'s newest tourist attraction has just opened, and its focus on civic education cannot come at a more critical time. America's billion-dollar presidential campaigns remain one of the wrold's great spectacles, increasingly stoking partisan fury, civil discord, and simple yet poisonous un-neighborliness (like stealing yard signs). To both sides, this is the most dangerous election in American history, comparable to the fateful 1860 campaign that preceded the American Civil War. Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins, half the country will believe the end is nigh.

"At this perfervid moment, then, the opening of  'The People's House: A White House Experience' is a welcome step back from the heated political climate. Designed to reveal the history and life inside the wrold's most famous home, 'The People's House' is a 33,000-square-foot educational center that explains the functioning of the Executive Mansion while humanizing the First Families who have lived there and the people who have worked behind the scenes. A project of the White House Historical Association, the interactive multimedia center is debuting in perhaps the most fraught election campaign in modern times. If Americans are going to relearn to debate politics instead of yelling, harassing, and shooting each other, then the lessons of democracy taught through the educational exhibits at the White House Experience may be central to that effort."

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"We have no doubt that, in the years to come, the media will describe the Biden-Harris administration as 'scandal-free.' But that's only because for the past four years they've vigorously ignored any and all scandals.

"Case in point is the $15 billion giveaway that Biden-Harris snuck through this summer without a single hearing, vote, or advance notice, in an attempt to buy seniors' votes. Followed up by a campaign email to these same seniors on behalf of Kamala Harris, also paid for by taxpayers.

"Is any of this legal? Who cares, if it helps Harris win in November? At least, that's how the mainstream press is treating this scandal.

"Here's the background."

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"The recent media blitz led by ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as he tried to tie former President Trump to Adolf Hitler has certainly gotten a good bit of attention.

"I suppose that's what media blitzes are for.

"And I imagine the Kamala Harris campaign is very pleased with Kelly's participation in their closing argument to the 2024 race.

"I will leave the politics to others.

"I see Kelly's comments through a different lens -- as one of only three other people in the entire world who have roughly the same perspective on the Trump White House as Gen. Kelly does.

"From that perspective, I was shocked and disappointed by the course of action he has chosen to follow."

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"The Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) weaponized the agency against Elon Musk's Twitter, according to a House Judiciary report provided exclusively to the Daily Caller.

"Biden-appointed FTC Chair Lina Khan introduced a consent decree against the platform due to Musk's acquisition, according to the report, although Khan denied that was the reason. However, the FTC was considering potentially enforcing the consent decree in the years preceding Musk's acquisition -- but Khan 'called for an immediate vite' days after the deal was announced, documents show."

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"The Biden administration's Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.

"The DOJ has sued Virginia, Alabama, and rural Wisconsin towns over the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls and switching to only paper ballots and hand-counting. Some of the jurisdictions are fighting back, arguing that they are following the law as they work to ensure election integrity.

"The Justice Department sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 elections. A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls. The judge ruled that removing the registered voters from the rolls violated federal law, WRIC reported."

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"Democrats have denied that their serial attempts to imprison former President Donald Trump and a long list of his former aides, political allies and supporters amount to an illegal campaign of political lawfare. But how else do you describe President Joe Biden's shocking demand this week that 'we gotta lock him (Donald Trump) up'?

"f course, immediately after saying it, Biden even in his attenuated mental state realized he had said something horribly wrong. So he backtracked, auto-erased his initial comment and said, 'politically lock him up.' Which of course is a non-sequitur.

"Lock him up for what? Does it really matter? As the Queen said in Alice In Wonderland, 'Sentence first -- verdict afterwards!' Biden and his allies just want Trump to go away. For a long time, if possible."

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"Democrats running for the Senate in 'blue wall' states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump's voters to keep their seats.

"And Democratic candidates in those states have been careful about criticizing Trump during the high-stakes debates. They have focused on policy and their own records without taking many -- or any -- shots against the Republican nominee.

"Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) has even embraced Trump's tariff policies. His campaign launched an ad last week that described him as 'independent' and touted how he 'bucked' the Biden administration to protect fracking and 'sided with Trump to end NAFTA.'"

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"'Even if you flippin' fries at McDonlad's,' Oprah Winfrey once said, 'if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.'

"I thought of this quote when Donald Trump turned up yesterday at a McDonald's restaurant in suburban Philadelphia to work a shift making French fries, then handing bags of food to drive-through customers.

"As political stunts go, this might have been the best I've ever seen, because it served two very powerful purposes in the presidential race."

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"On an Oct. 13 MSNBC broadcast with anchor Jen Psaki, Democratic strategist -- and ormer political advisor to President Bill Clinton -- James Carville denounced Donald Trump for putting 'the entire Constitution in jeopardy.' Carville offered a concrete example of the right's subversion of American freedom and democracy: 'The Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas have totally greenlighted the idea that you could round up, use the military to round up your political enemies.' A former political advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Psaki replied with a smile, 'We love the truth telling.'

"Carville and Psaki are typical. The left often portrays itself as the rigorous defender of truth against relentless right-wing disinformation while resolutely promoting progressive disinformation, including the falsehood that disinformation is a distinctively right-wing phenomenon.

"Small wonder that Carville did not elaborate on his extraordinary accusation, and that Psaki did not ask why he singled out Justice Thomas or how the Supreme Court authorized the rounding up of political enemies. Perhaps Carville had in mind the coutr's holding last July in Trump v. United States 'that the President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for conduct within his exclusive sphere of constitutional authority.' But the Constitution does not give the president authority to round up political enemies."

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