Pundits and weak-kneed Republicans looking for an excuse to avoid the obvious — that there is only one pro-American, fit presidential candidate — would have us believe that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to give “more details” about her agenda or provide “reassurance” to nervous conservatives. In fact, her center-left domestic agenda is robust, and when it comes to foreign policy, she has been Reaganesque.
Don’t take my word for it. “It is a speech Ronald Reagan could have given,” Liz Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week” regarding Harris’s keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. “It is a speech George Bush could have given. It’s very much an embrace and an understanding of the exceptional nature of this great nation, a love of America, a recognition that America is a special place.” Cheney went on to condemn former president Donald Trump’s plan for across-the-board, massive tariffs that “will choke off global trade, will likely lead us down the path that we’ve seen before, for example, in the 1930s ... [to] a depression.”
Cheney said that when it comes to “fundamental alliances, when it comes to the importance of NATO, for example, and how important it is for the United States to lead in the world, we’ve seen a sea change.” In other words, those Republicans who during the Cold War ridiculed Democratic fecklessness, showed timidity toward America’s enemies and pooh-poohed the United........