The rising trend on X and other social-media platforms is the claim that Vice President Kamala Harris is a communist. And the label isn’t just coming from what the far-left media would call “far-right extremists.”
Mainstream commentators, elected officials, and former President Donald Trump himself use the label regularly. And with good reason, they say, pointing to her many public statements that sound like something Josef Stalin or Mao Zedong would say.
In one clip after another, Harris speaks of confiscating property, stealing patents, and, without using the words, redistributing wealth.
“Comrade Kamala”
Trump has repeatedly labeled Harris a communist on Truth Social, his social media platform, and on August 17 posted a photo of Harris in front of a communist rally. “Chicago,” a sign on the wall says. Harris stands in front of identically dressed cadres hoisting red flags. A hammer and sickle flag is above her head.
“Comrade Kamala Harris is terrible for our Country,” he wrote the next day:
She is a Communist, has always been a Communist, and will always be a Communist. Under her “leadership,” the USA will fail, and fail quickly. We will not let that happen!!!
Opponents began calling her communist, as commentator Colin Rugg observed, after she unveiled her economic plans. Rugg pointed to a column in the leftist Washington Post.
“When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?” the headline over WaPo scribe Catherine Rampell said. “It’s hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris’s price-gouging proposal is.”
Noting that she’ll fight “price gouging” and “excessive prices” and “excessive corporate profits,” particularly for groceries, Rampell asked “so what level counts as ‘excessive,’ you might ask? TBD, but Harris will ban it.”
That’s the thing about price gouging: As has been said of hardcore pornography, you know it when you see it.…
In a news release Wednesday, her campaign said the first 100 days of her presidency would include the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries — setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”
What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification.
Rampell wrote that Harris likely pilfered the “template” of Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who proposed a bill that would forbid “grossly excessive” prices during an “atypical disruption” of the market. Of course, those terms were undefined, and the bill “would empower the Federal Trade Commission to enforce bans using any metric it deems appropriate.”
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.
“Kamala Harris is officially too communist for even the far-left media,” conservative commentator Dan Bongino wrote on Facebook, citing Rampell.
The New York Post had one word for Harri’s plan: “Kamunism.”
Patent Seizure Promised
Other Harris opponents disinterred even more of her statements from the past.
When she ran for president in 2020, Harris proposed a plan to eliminate the non-existent gender-pay gap between men and women.
“For every 1% differential between what they are paying men and women for equal work, there will be a fine of 1% of their previous year’s profits,” Harris vowed.
As well, Harris threatened to steal patents from inventors.
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [the government] will take over. Yes we can do that!” she said:
Yes, Yes, we can do that. Yes, we can do that. The question is whether you have the will to do it. I have the will to do it.
During an interview in Iowa in 2019, Harris said that farmers and other Americans who work tough jobs would have to “transition” to new jobs because of “climate change,” another bogeyman of the left like the “gender pay gap.”
“Mao had a famine,” podcaster Mike Cernovich wrote over the clip:
Stalin did. Look up the Holodomor. Pol Pot did.
They all began with “year zero” agricultural programs. Hundreds of millions died a slow death.
Kamala Harris is a communist. It’s not up for debate.
Also calling Harris a communist, U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado wrote on X that “her father raised her to be one,” and the 2024 election is a choice of Make America Great Again or Marxism.
The End Wokeness X feed offered a mashup of Harris’ repeated comments about equality and equity that show just what she believes.
Harris has said that society “has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place, and since we didn’t start in the same place, some folks might need more … equitable distribution.”
“Giving resources based on equity” is part of Harris’ plans for the nation’s future because so many Americans “are having an experience that is not equal.”
“Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing,” Harris once said:
Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place, as opposed to equity, which is everyone should end up in the same place. And if you then understand not everybody started out in the same place, you understand some people need more, so we all end up in the same place.
Equity, Harris believes, must be “firmly at the center of our economic policy.”
If Americans want to know what the economy will look like under Harris, they might watch the latest from Trump’s campaign, which features a short clip of Harris in North Carolina.
“A loaf of bread cost 50 percent more today than it did before the pandemic,” Harris said. “Ground beef is up almost 50 percent.”
The next voice is Trump’s: “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”
