It looks like there’s a pretty good chance Vice President Kamala Harris will be the Democratic candidate in this year’s presidential election, and there’s a weird vibe going around among people I know.

See, Democrats always try to be strategists about elections. There’s usually a lot of talk from rank-and-file party members about voting based on how other people will vote. “I’m worried about Vice President Harris because other people are racist,” they say. Or, “I just don’t think people in [random state that they’ve never been to] will vote for a woman.”

Even liberals who have nice things to say about Harris have sometimes felt like they have to qualify them. “I don’t love Kamala, but you have to admit she gave a great speech on living in the context of all that came before you,” for example. And, “I’m not a Kamala fan, but she really managed to tear apart Bill Barr in that hearing.”

Now I don’t mean that as an insult. I do it too. We feel the need to say—and to remind our peers—that we know no candidate is perfect. We’re not naive. Politicians are by nature egocentric weirdos and it’s important that we don’t worship them or elevate them into something they’re........

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