Kamala Harris isn't afraid to show anger. That's progress -- but is it good politics? [View all]

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It’s a little strange, in light of the dizzying array of right-now challenges that would confront a new president, that the first real clash among the Democratic candidates had to do with an almost 50-year-old debate over integrating schools that most of the electorate is too young to remember.

It’s even stranger because it turns out there’s really not a nickel’s worth of difference between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden when it comes to their actual positions on the subject of busing now — both of them see it, if you can parse Harris’s words, as something that can work but shouldn’t be federally mandated.

There’s no policy dispute here; Harris was just trying to grab center stage while also reminding everyone that Biden is really old and really white. Check and check.

So there’s a choice to be made here, before we get too far down the road with these debates and primaries. Do you believe America has changed so much ... that it would embrace any candidate who wants to relitigate the race wars of the 1970s? Or do you believe it’s a country that will elect anyone — white or black, male or female — who seems capable of making America whole again?

Democratic voters might ask themselves that question. So, too, should their candidates.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kamala-harris-isnt-afraid-to-show-anger-thats-progress-but-is-it-good-politics-090000788.html