Hope is a hell of a drug. Since Sunday, the U.S. vice president turned presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Devi Harris, has been treated to a political honeymoon so intense, so adoring that it recalls-and perhaps exceeds-the gushing press a young Illinoisan senator named Barack Obama received after his 2004 DNC speech in Boston.
For all the happy talk, Democrats must be (or should be) wondering, deep within the recesses of their collective psyches, Will we be getting the Harris of History or the Harris of our Imaginations? Because one is radically different from the other.
This week, in what was supposed to be a kind of "gotcha" moment for the Trump campaign, it was revealed that in 2011 Harris's campaign for California Attorney General received a check for $6,000 from a New York real estate developer named Donald J. Trump.
From the standpoint of progressive Democrats, would this not raise questions about Harris's own politics? She did, after all, cash it. The interesting (or worrying, as the case may be) question for progressive Democrats is: Why did Harris appeal to donors such as Trump?
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