One of former President Donald Trump’s shticks is to come up with nicknames for his opponents. They aren’t usually complimentary.

The one he's landed on for his new Democratic opponent in the presidential contest is “Comrade Kamala Harris.”

Trump wants to paint the vice president as a candidate who’s about as far left as one can get.

Lucky for him, Harris’ new light-on-facts blueprint for the economy, which she outlined Friday, plays right into the socialist stereotype.

There’s lots to dislike about her big-government agenda and costly ideas.

One of the worst is Harris' proposal to impose government price controls on private-sector businesses. Democrats love to blame “greedy corporations” for all the country’s ills, but the reality is much more complicated. And if they force the government further into the private marketplace, they’ll make things much worse for Americans.

Price controls have been tried in various forms around the world for centuries. (Not to give away the suspense, but they always fail.)

Even Republican President Richard Nixon tried price controls in the 1970s to deal with high prices, but he succeeded only in making inflation worse.

Won’t we ever learn?

What’s going on here is that Harris is trying mightily to deflect from the pain of high inflation during the Biden-Harris administration.

She’s also trying to deflect any blame for the........

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