Well it’s hardly a surprise that writers at outlets like RedState aren’t thrilled with Kamala Harris’ Soviet-style economic proposals, but it is startling to see even far-left outlets criticizing the vice president and Democrat presidential nominee because usually she can do no wrong in their eyes.
As my colleague Nick Arama wrote, even a Washington Post columnist trashed her ideas in a Thursday op-ed titled (beautifully, I must say), “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?”
Even CNN—normally a reliable mouthpiece for the DNC—jumped in with two separate segments savaging Kamala’s “price gouging” proposals, which seem to come straight out of Venezuela.
We’ll start with the network’s Economics and Political Commentator Catherine Rampell, who went off on Kamala’s Marxist ideas for almost a full two and a half minutes:
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CNN just DESTROYED Kamala Harris’ economic agenda.
“We‘ve seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before. Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union…it leads to shortages” and would “cause a lot of harm.” pic.twitter.com/pFEMYDjpN0
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) August 16, 2024
One of the anchors asked Rampell, why are you skeptical of the price-gouging proposal? She had many reasons, starting with the fact that it’s almost impossible to define:
…first of all, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It’s like that old line about pornography; I know it when I see it. In the sense that what does it mean to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin? That seems to be shorthand for a price or a profit margin that bugs me, that seems too high.
She pointed out that unelected bureaucrats would take over (emphasis mine):
It’s not going to be markets, it’s not going to be supply and demand that’s determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs. It’s going to be some bureaucrat in DC, which seems totally unworkable, first of all.
We’ve seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before– Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etcetera. It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, you know, [and] plenty of uncertainty…
I can’t even believe this was allowed on CNN. But wait, there’s more! Host Abby Phillip also had a segment where she expressed her shock at just how bad Kamala’s proposals are:
Phillip wondered aloud whether it was all just a ploy.
During the segment, the host read aloud one commentator’s criticism of the price control proposal – that it was meant to pander to “economically illiterate” voters – and appeared to agree that it was a way to get cheap votes from those who don’t understand how the economy works.
“Is this just a ploy? Because it sounds kind of like it,” Phillip asked her guests, which included Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Democratic strategist Keith Boykin and Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson.
When you’re a leftist and even CNN and the Washington Post are saying your ideas are too extreme, you know you’ve lost the plot. Voters need to wake up and make sure this woman never sits at the Resolute Desk because if she does, we’ll find out for ourselves just how Venezuela went from prosperity to despair.
