After last week’s conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, the U.S. now has two official presidential candidates: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

But do we? It seems that whoever Harris and Trump were in the past has been “disappeared” and replaced with different personalities.

From a Democratic perspective, it would seem that as far as the past three and a half years are concerned, they never happened.

The Harris who took the oath of office as vice president on Jan. 20, 2021, was certainly not the same Harris who gave what has been regarded by most objective observers as a tour de force acceptance speech. For someone whose speaking ability has been called a “word salad” of disjointed sentences, unconnected by a common theme or sense, this transformation was stunning.

The Biden-Harris administration’s record has been airbrushed to erase setbacks and failures and revised to attribute the triumphs largely to the vice president. Once President Biden left for a California holiday after delivering his farewell address, his presence sank without a trace.

In fairness, Harris’s address was statesmanlike and powerful. The speech writers should be congratulated. Voila, with the swipe of a pen, a new Kamala Harris who was now “the........

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