Staff Reports
Mainstream media outlets, notorious for their left-leaning bias and often indistinguishable from campaign HQs for the Democratic Party, are now throwing Vice President Kamala Harris under the proverbial bus. In a surprising twist, some commentators from these supposed bastions of progressive thought have declared that Harris’s ambitious economic plan may very well be leading America down a path toward socialism, a fate reminiscent of Venezuela and the Soviet Union. Apparently, there’s a limit to how far left even leftists are willing to go.
Catherine Rampell, who typically occupies the dual roles of paper-shuffling liberal and progressive cheerleader—serving as an economics and political commentator for CNN and a columnist for the Washington Post—has joined the fray, reminiscent of a defender who’s suddenly found the forward pass not quite so appealing. Rampell has openly suggested that Harris’s economic proposal is a dangerous experiment with familiar historical failures. It’s amusing to think that a member of the left might now call out their own for flirting with communistic tendencies.
"Left-leaning" WaPo Editorial Board, on Friday night, before Monday's start of the Democratic Convention, attacked a part of Kamala's economic plan.
WaPo knew this would hurt Kamala.
It seems Kamala crossed a line in the sand.
R's against the plan, of course. Even WaPo? pic.twitter.com/IByyTF1NZb
— Great Quarter (@greatquarter) August 18, 2024
The initiative in question is being dubbed the first-ever federal price-fixing plan for corporations, something straight out of a leftist playbook that most sane Americans thought we had shelved for good. Harris’s new scheme triggers alarms across party lines, with dissenters not just confined to the Republican corner, but surfacing from the liberal media itself. Rampell isn’t alone in sounding the alarm; a chorus of criticisms from news outlets have denounced the proposal as misguided at best, harmful at worst.
During a segment on CNN that likely left her colleagues biting their tongues, Rampell elaborated on the dangers that could arise if this plan is implemented. According to her, price controls lead to chaos—like black markets and shortages—predictably drawing comparisons to failed economies of the past. Harris’s strategy apparently includes radical transparency measures requiring public companies to disclose how they set prices, a twist that Rampell warns could inadvertently foster collusion among businesses rather than curtail it. Perhaps it’s the irony of preaching transparency that’s lost on Harris, who seems more interested in wielding economic power than understanding the foundational principles of a free market.
Enter former President Donald Trump, who wasted no time in launching a rhetorical blitz against Harris’s plan. He pointed out the staggering time gap between Harris’s lofty promises and tangible action. Trump’s sharp critique highlighted that her so-called ‘Day One’ declarations came three and a half years too late. He has taken the liberty to remind everyone, with illustrative graphics, just how prices have risen since Harris took office—making it clear that her tenure has not been marked by any real economic relief for American families.
The former president’s message is clear: if the cost of living is already unbearable under Kamala, then good luck if she makes it to the Oval Office in her own right. His predictions paint a dystopian future where Soviet-style price controls and extreme taxation—levying up to 80% of income—become the norm rather than the exception. Unterrified, Trump encourages Americans to choose lower taxes over Harris’s vision of price-fixing fervor, positing that, come Election Day, opting for cash over catastrophe is the right move.
