How convincing is Kamala Harris' leftward shift? | Briahna Joy Gray

The Democratic presidential candidate has adopted a number of leftwing positions, but is she as progressive as she sounds?

When Kamala Harris speaks, she sure sounds like a progressive. In a speech on Tuesday, the US presidential candidate said: “We need our leaders to speak truths. We have an economy where the cost of health care, housing, and education are going up, but paychecks aren’t growing fast enough to keep up.” It’s not just the economy that’s broken in her view: Harris hits progressive notes on everything from the criminal justice system to climate change. These are the “truths” she consistently promises to tell.

This rhetoric is matched by her emerging policy platform. Since 2016, Harris has adopted a number of leftwing positions first popularized by Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign. But, despite the fact that she has embraced these policies as her own, the timing of her leftward shift, combined with her failure to tie it to a consistent ideology, has left some progressives skeptical.

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