It has always kind of held true that there is no pandering quite like a Democratic presidential candidate pandering on an election year Labor Day in a Pittsburgh union hall. And this year was certainly no exception — especially since a major steel deal happens to be squarely on the table in the national discourse.

Jabbing her finger into the podium with furrowed brow as President Joe Biden stood nearby, nodding off — er, nodding his head — Vice President Kamala Harris bellowed, “U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American operated!” She then offered the obligatory follow-up pander: “And I will always have the backs of U.S. Steel workers!”

It was a good line and a good time and place for it politically, but the vice president offered absolutely no ideas as to how she, as president, planned to in fact “have their backs” and deliver on that declaration about ownership. Because there aren’t any.

The pathetic part of it is that she knows full well that, at the moment at least, a pending merger with Japan’s Nippon Steel is the one and only thing that will keep U.S. Steel from becoming a shadow of itself and very likely having to leave Pittsburgh altogether, preventing a massive shaft to the very people she was promising to save in that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall on Monday. Harris, her boss President Biden, and even........

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