Now that we see the Democrats’ presidential ticket for 2020 in full, we can see how underwhelming it is. To me, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are political caricatures, gargoyles, in the grand old tradition of Charles Dickens. It is fashionable for the cognoscenti to sneer at the improbability of the Dickensians, the arch-hypocrite Mr. Pecksniff, arch-slimeball Uriah Heep, and the alcoholic nurse Mrs. Gamp, but who could have predicted the arch-shallowness of bully Joe Biden, a New Deal liberal in an age of wokies? Or nasty Kamala Harris, the First Black Woman child of not-very-black Berkeley academics that’s supposed to embody all that is good and woke, but who is little more than the old-fashioned girl that slept her way to the top? Only in her case it wasn’t the old-fashioned millionaire of the song, but an old-fashioned political boss with the power to propel her into the United States Senate. Remember, back in the day, how we were carefully taught that the...(Read Full Article)