They’re baaaa-ack.

Well, actually, truth be told, they never left. They are America’s political media elites and they are still up to their old shenanigans, focusing on the wrong thing, distorting the facts, and time and time again getting it wrong.

Their latest target is the Kamala Harris campaign for president. Apparently, they are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that it is going so well. They view this as a challenge, it seems, or perhaps see her rapid ascendancy as a sign they are doing something wrong.

So, the same people who thought it was worthwhile to speculate on why Hillary Clinton was wearing so many pantsuits instead of focusing on the fact that she was running against a corrupt lunatic are now writing probing columns and articles seeking to pick apart or undermine Harris’ success. Even though she too is running against a loonier more dangerous version of the same madman. Even though the “why” of Harris’ success really ought to be a bigger story than trying to manufacture bogus stories about why it allegedly cannot last.

In just the past few days, you have seen Politico run with a piece about “tensions” with the Harris campaign as it did the inevitable and brough on new staffers to replace a team that had been put together to serve a completely different candidate in a completely different kind of race.

You have seen so-called pundits pick up on the silly assertions of JD Vance that Harris is not speaking to the media even though she has been on constant public display ever since her candidacy began. She has given many addresses during that time, she has spoken to the press frequently—as her opponent has been hunkered down doing precious little except posting nutty conspiracy theories on social media, lying at a rate worthy of an Olympic medal during one interview with a friendly journalist, and ranting about things that did not happen with people who did not........

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