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Respectfully @Rosbake1 I’ve known Kamala Harris since law school — your analysis is flat wrong. Having manners is different than leaving people behind. Harris has excellent courtroom demeaner yet never yielded to old bull judges; I doubt she’d yield to old bull segregationists.
Do lawyers and Congresspeople have to exhibit manners and *civility*? Of course! But the key issue here is when you make the deals - in the courtroom where 98% of cases settle without trial or in the Congress where all must compromise - did you leave people behind? Kamala didn’t.
The analysis isn’t therefore “would you be civil to segregationists?” but “would you leave people behind in cutting a legislative deal with segregationists? Would you find common cause with them to specifically leave people behind?” Answers for the Kamala I know: No and no.
So rather than keep the campaign stuck in the tone policed past let’s look to the future and ask of Biden, Harris, and all the 2020 field: “in moving America forward, how do your policies leave no people behind? If you only get incremental change, whom do you prioritize and why?”
