The socialist prime minister is effectively greenlighting an African migrant invasion as local officials beg the government to declare a national emergency.

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On Wednesday morning, he will finally have another opportunity to prove it under oath.

But this time, Fauci enters the hearing room with an unusually clear legal warning hanging over his head.

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Now, newly released audio recordings between Biden and his ghostwriter are providing fresh evidence Biden received special treatment.

This evidence has the potential to cost Joe Biden—a lot.

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New firings in the “Deep State” are sending shockwaves across Washington D.C.

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Fresh off an election debacle that has many wondering what in the world is going on in California, we see a state ballot proposal that should be an easy win.

The Democrats just botched it. The state’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta, is using a weaselly tactic to make it sound like securing elections is a bad thing.

Well, to Democrats it is a bad thing. Asking them to back voter IDs is like asking vampires to order garlic shrimp for lunch.

Here’s the Prop 39 controversy, in a nut shell:

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On Sunday, the longtime Kentucky senator finally broke his silence, releasing both a photograph and a lengthy written statement about his health. But rather than putting the controversy to rest, the carefully managed rollout has only raised more questions.

The photo itself appears intentionally designed to prove it is current. McConnell is shown sitting beside his wife, Elaine Chao, holding this weekend’s sports edition of The Washington Post while recovering at a rehabilitation facility.

The statement, meanwhile, insists McConnell did not suffer a heart attack or stroke, says he was briefly unconscious after a fall, later developed a “mild case of pneumonia,” and is continuing rehabilitation before eventually returning to the Senate.

But after weeks of conflicting reports, many Americans are still asking whether that explanation tells the whole story.

Just days ago, CNN released previously unseen footage showing McConnell being wheeled from his Washington residence on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. The network also reported on eyewitness accounts from neighbors describing a significant emergency response outside his home.

Separately, emergency dispatch audio from the day referenced an unidentified patient who was reportedly unconscious, with “cardiac arrest” and “CPR in progress” mentioned during the call. While it has never been conclusively established that those dispatch details referred to McConnell himself, the timing of the emergency and his hospitalization naturally fueled widespread speculation.

Now comes the official explanation.

McConnell says there was no heart attack. No stroke. No concussion. No broken bones. No tumors. No hemorrhages.

Instead, he says he briefly lost consciousness after falling and later developed what he describes as a mild case of pneumonia while recovering in the hospital.

That account immediately raises obvious questions.

If pneumonia became a significant part of the reason he remained hospitalized for nearly a month, why wasn’t it disclosed weeks ago?

If doctors have subjected him to “every test they can think of,” have they actually determined what caused him to suddenly lose consciousness?

And perhaps most importantly, if McConnell is healthy enough to pose for a carefully staged photograph and release a lengthy written statement, why not simply record a two-minute video for the people of Kentucky?

Instead, what readers received was a statement that many viewed as looking more like a polished public relations document than a candid medical update.

The structure is familiar.

• It opens with reassuring “fight for Kentucky” language.

• It acknowledges public concern while appealing to the realities of aging and privacy.

• It emphatically denies the most serious medical possibilities.

• It explains the lengthy hospitalization.

• It assures constituents he is still working behind the scenes with staff and Senate colleagues.

• It says he still has “unfinished business.”

• And it ends by thanking everyone for their prayers while promising to return as soon as doctors allow.

Whether intentional or not, the statement follows a well-worn political communications playbook.

The timing also makes the situation especially significant.

Kentucky is approaching an important legal deadline surrounding how a Senate vacancy would be handled if one were to occur before the end of McConnell’s term. At the same time, Senate Republicans are navigating one of the most consequential legislative periods of President Trump’s second term.

McConnell has long been one of the Republican conference’s most influential institutional voices and one of the most outspoken skeptics of several America First priorities, including efforts to advance the SAVE America Act.

His absence matters.

It also comes just days after the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, another prominent Republican senator whose absence has altered the political dynamics inside the conference.

One detail that stood out to many readers was that McConnell’s statement never mentioned Graham, despite emphasizing that he has remained in regular contact with Senate colleagues throughout his recovery.

Ultimately, none of this means McConnell is obligated to disclose every aspect of his private medical history.

But when a sitting U.S. senator disappears from public view for nearly a month, is transported from his home by stretcher, remains hospitalized for weeks with virtually no public updates, and then reappears only through a carefully composed photograph and written statement, it is entirely reasonable for the public to continue asking questions.

This episode also revives a broader debate that Washington has repeatedly tried to avoid.

Americans watched the final years of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s tenure unfold amid repeated questions about her health and ability to serve. Former Rep. Kay Granger’s prolonged absence sparked similar concerns.

Now McConnell’s hospitalization has reignited the conversation once again.

Congress sets minimum ages for serving in federal office because lawmakers recognized that maturity matters.

Perhaps it’s time for an equally serious conversation about whether or not members of the U.S. government should have age limits.

That’s why a series of viral videos out of Fort Worth, Texas, has struck such a nerve. Americans watched police officers tell Christian street preachers that speech could become criminal if someone was offended by it. Not threats. Not violence. Not incitement. Simply speech that offended people.

Now the Department of Justice is stepping in.

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The ruling directly clashes with an earlier decision by a Washington, D.C., judge that had blocked the enhanced verification system, setting up a legal battle that now appears increasingly likely to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Speaking on Fox News, Fetterman warned that Democrats are facing what he called a “small communist takeover” in Maine, where candidate Graham Platner — who has openly identified as a communist — is positioned to become the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate.

Fetterman did not mince words in describing the shift, arguing that activist groups and ideological factions are pulling the party in a direction that departs from its traditional focus.

“Now there is kind of a small Communist takeover in Maine,” Fetterman said, referencing Platner’s candidacy and broader grassroots activity.

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He also pointed to what he described as a convergence of activist movements — including anti-ICE efforts and pro-Palestinian protests — alongside what he called a resurgence of socialism within parts of the party.

Fetterman, who has consistently positioned himself as a pro-labor Democrat, suggested that this shift risks sidelining core working-class priorities. He emphasized that while he supports unions and traditional Democratic policies, he sees some of the current activism as driven by what he called the party’s “worst impulses.”

Platner’s candidacy has already drawn national attention, not only because of his political views but also due to controversy surrounding a tattoo that critics say resembles a Nazi symbol. Platner has addressed the issue by attributing it to his military service and has said he does not support extremist ideology.

Sen. John Kennedy mocked Platner during a Fox News appearance, calling him part of the Democratic Party’s “loon wing” and using the race to argue that the party is increasingly dominated by far-left figures.

Kennedy also pointed to broader policy debates — including immigration enforcement and policing — as evidence of what he views as a disconnect between Democratic leadership and mainstream voters.

The Maine race could become a high-profile test of that argument. If Platner secures the nomination, he is expected to face incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican who has built a reputation as a centrist and has repeatedly won in a politically mixed state.

That contrast — between a self-described communist candidate and a long-serving moderate Republican — is likely to draw national attention and heavy spending from both parties.

But the Maine race isn’t an outlier. Socialist and far-left mayors already run some of America’s biggest cities: Los Angeles’ Karen Bass, Seattle’s Katie Wilson, Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, Boston’s Michelle Wu, and New York City’s Zohran Mamdani.

These are the real-world results of the left’s long march through the institutions. Meanwhile, the radical Squad—AOC and her crew—wields massive influence inside the Democratic caucus, pulling the entire party off the deep end on everything from open borders to defunding the police.

None of this happened by accident. It’s the poisoned fruit of decades of socialist indoctrination in our ideologically captured universities. Instead of teaching critical thinking, American history, or basic economics, these grievance factories have spent generations pumping out brainwashed activists steeped in Marxist critical theory, anti-American propaganda, and identity-politics hatred.

The result? A political class that hates capitalism, borders, and law enforcement—and is now running cities into the ground while trying to seize control of the Democratic Party.

This video was cross-posted at Explain America.

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According to GOP aides and lawmakers familiar with the talks, the plan would fund most DHS operations while temporarily excluding some of the agency’s most politically contentious immigration enforcement functions. The framework emerged following a White House meeting earlier this week and is expected to anchor ongoing negotiations on Capitol Hill.

Senate Republicans say the proposal mirrors prior Democratic demands to separate certain Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities from broader funding bills. One GOP source described the approach as “the only way out,” adding that Republicans are effectively “calling the Democrats’ bluff” by adopting a structure long favored by their opponents.

“We’re going to have to move forward and give them what they want,” another Republican source said, characterizing the plan as a tactical concession aimed at breaking the impasse.

Under the proposal, funding would continue for ICE investigations targeting transnational criminal organizations, including cartels, human traffickers and child exploitation rings. At the same time, funding for ICE’s “enforcement and removal operations” would be withheld, at least temporarily—a distinction Republicans argue preserves core national security functions while addressing Democratic concerns about deportation policy.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said Republicans intentionally stripped the proposal down to what Democrats had previously requested. “We finally just said, ‘Stop. We’ll just fund everything but [Enforcement and Removal Operations],’” Lankford said. “That’s what you said you wanted at the beginning. Let’s do that.”

Despite those concessions, Senate Democrats have so far declined to accept the framework. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) confirmed that negotiations remain ongoing but indicated Democrats are preparing a counteroffer. “Negotiations are ongoing, and they’ve sent us an offer,” Schumer said. “And we’ll be sending them an offer back. And I can assure you it will contain significant reform in it.”

Democrats have continued to press for additional restrictions on immigration enforcement agencies, arguing that limiting one funding stream does not adequately constrain broader operations across DHS. “If we are talking about funding any part of ICE or [Customs and Border Protection], we absolutely must take some key steps to rein them in,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) said, adding that the current Republican proposal “does not do that.”

Other Democrats have echoed those concerns, noting that enforcement activity is distributed across multiple DHS components. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said immigration enforcement is “funded out of almost every part of the DHS budget,” making it “really hard to address an immigration enforcement operation that’s out of control” through a partial funding approach alone.

Republicans, meanwhile, have expressed growing frustration that Democrats are rejecting a framework they say aligns closely with earlier Democratic proposals. “We did all this work… we get it squared away… and then they want something more,” Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said, questioning whether Democrats are prepared to finalize a deal.

The proposal also faces procedural and political hurdles beyond Democratic opposition. Any funding measure would require at least 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster, meaning bipartisan support is essential. In addition, House Republicans have not formally aligned with the Senate approach, raising the prospect of further delays even if an agreement is reached in the upper chamber.

The prolonged shutdown has intensified concerns among lawmakers in both parties about operational disruptions and national security risks. Thousands of DHS employees have gone without pay, and reports of extended airport security lines have added pressure on Congress to act.

Complicating negotiations further is a parallel dispute over the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. Some Republicans are seeking to delay consideration of the bill or shift elements of it into a budget reconciliation package, which could pass with a simple majority but is limited to fiscal provisions under Senate rules.

Even that fallback strategy carries risk. The Senate parliamentarian could rule key provisions out of order, forcing lawmakers back to negotiations on a broader bipartisan bill.

The agency says its posture is adapting to a rapidly evolving threat environment.

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President Donald Trump announced the operation in the early morning hours, stating that U.S. forces had successfully removed Maduro from Venezuelan soil and flown him out of the country to face long-standing U.S. narcotics and weapons charges. The president said a full briefing would come later in the day.

The president then made an explosive announcement at the briefing.

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Yet again, one of her husbands is in the spotlight as a suspicious figure, and there are fresh questions about how he was able to reap lucrative rewards, potentially due to his wife’s privileged position in the U.S. Congress.

Financial disclosures filed by Rep. Ilhan Omar reveal that two companies tied to her husband saw their reported valuations spike dramatically over the past two years — at the same time Minnesota has been rocked by historic fraud investigations involving nonprofits and contractors in Omar’s district.

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The Fulton County fraud exploded at the on-target accusations of Georgia state senators on Wednesday, charging her with a true “criminal conspiracy” to wage lawfare against the favored presidential candidate during the 2024 campaign.

Fani, who was booted from the case after a fraught legal battle, showed America her true colors by going off on a racial grievance tirade, thereby proving once-and-for-all that her partisan crusade against the MAGA movement had nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with election interference.

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The Appeals Court’s order was terse but extraordinary, signaling that the real question may not be whether officials defied a court order, but whether the judge ever had the authority to investigate ‘indirect contempt’ proceedings in the first place.

Judge Jeb Boasberg, no fan of the Trump administration — or judicial ethics — has been knee-deep in D.C. swamp water for decades. But his latest ruling appears to have gone much too far — and he just got “benchslapped” for it.

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Republicans gain up to five House seats, Democrats lose Jasmine Crockett’s district, and the nation’s highest court signals that states are free to decide their own maps.

But looming in the background is a massive court case that could transform political maps across the country — and deliver a backbreaking blow to the Democratic Party.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for Texas to use its new congressional map in the upcoming 2026 midterms, granting a major victory to President Donald Trump and GOP leaders who have pushed a nationwide strategy of mid-decade redistricting to shore up Republican control of the House.

The unsigned order blocks a lower federal court ruling that found the map likely unconstitutional on racial-gerrymandering grounds and said the boundaries could not be used.

The ruling, which arrived just days before Texas’s December 8 candidate filing deadline, means the state can proceed with a map expected to flip as many as five Democratic-held seats into the Republican column. With Republicans currently clinging to a narrow majority, those pickups could determine the balance of power for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.

The justices said the lower court “likely did so in error” when it blocked the map and criticized the panel for failing to honor “the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.”

The Supreme Court also said the district court violated the Purcell principle, which warns federal judges against making late-breaking changes to election rules.

“The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections.”

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote that it was “indisputable” the “impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.”

That assertion is legally significant because federal courts may not intervene in partisan gerrymandering cases. The constitutional question is whether race — not politics — drove the design of the districts.

Left-wing Justice Elena Kagan dissented, writing that the majority “disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.” She accused her conservative colleagues of usurping the role of the trial court.

“The majority can reach the result it does – overturning the District Court’s finding of racial line-drawing, even if to achieve partisan goals – only by arrogating to itself that court’s rightful function. We know better, the majority declares today. I cannot think of a reason why.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the ruling, declaring, “The Big Beautiful Map will be in effect for 2026. Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state. This map reflects the political climate of our state and is a massive win for Texas and every conservative who is tired of watching the left try to upend the political system with bogus lawsuits.” Gov. Greg Abbott echoed him: “Texas is officially – and legally – more red.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi also praised the outcome, posting, “Federal courts have no right to interfere with a State’s decision to redraw legislative maps for partisan reasons. A federal district court ignored that principle two weeks ago, and the Supreme Court correctly stayed that overreaching decision tonight.”

Democrats blasted the ruling as a blow to minority representation. Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said, “The Supreme Court failed Texas voters today, and they failed American democracy. This is what the end of the Voting Rights Act looks like: courts that won’t protect minority communities even when the evidence is

The political ramifications were immediate. With the Supreme Court’s ruling clearing the map for use, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is now officially being drawn out of her current district and is expected to face a difficult path to reelection or be forced to run elsewhere, a shift already ricocheting across Texas political circles.

The decision arrives in the midst of an escalating national redistricting war triggered in part by Trump’s calls for Republican-led states to redraw boundaries mid-decade and by Democratic counter-moves in blue states.

Virginia

Virginia Democrats have already passed the first step of a mid-decade redistricting plan expected to add at least two Democratic-leaning seats once voters approve a constitutional amendment next year. Republicans have thus far failed to prevent that effort from advancing.

California

California Democrats, responding directly to GOP mapmaking in Texas and Missouri, pushed through Proposition 50, producing a new congressional map that could net Democrats up to five additional seats.

The Trump administration has joined a lawsuit alleging the plan is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander designed to boost Hispanic voters without legal justification. A three-judge panel will hear arguments later this month.

Indiana

In Indiana, Republicans—under pressure from Trump allies—advanced a new map in the House, though the Senate remains divided on whether to adopt it. Missouri Republicans have already dismantled Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district to engineer a GOP pickup, a move now tied up in court and referendum challenges. Other states, including North Carolina, Utah, Ohio, Maryland, Florida, and New York, are either actively redrawing their maps or facing lawsuits that could reshape their districts before 2026.

SCOTUS to Rule on Election Powderkeg Case

The stakes are enormous. The Supreme Court’s Texas ruling also intersects with a major Voting Rights Act case currently pending over Louisiana’s map, one that could redefine federal oversight of racial discrimination in redistricting and potentially unravel decades of precedent governing majority-minority districts. Many legal experts believe Thursday’s decision signals where the majority is leaning.

From the start, the Texas case was complicated by a letter from the Biden Justice Department urging the state to redraw four districts it claimed were unconstitutional. Texas officials later cited that letter as evidence race had to be considered, a rationale that then became the basis for the lawsuit accusing the state of improper racial line-drawing.

US District Judge Jeffrey Brown found that “the governor explicitly directed the legislature to redistrict based on race,” which placed the map under a high level of scrutiny. But the Supreme Court’s intervention prevents the lower court from enforcing its ruling ahead of the primaries.

Texas argued that failure to restore the map would cause statewide “chaos,” pointing to the looming Monday filing deadline and active campaigns already underway. The Supreme Court agreed, applying the Purcell principle to allow the map to stand at least through the 2026 cycle.

Political strategists in both parties now acknowledge that Trump’s mid-decade redistricting strategy—paired with Democratic counter-maps in blue states—has set off the most volatile and fast-moving redistricting environment since the 1960s.

Bottom Line

The Supreme Court’s ruling does more than settle a Texas dispute; it effectively greenlights aggressive mid-decade redistricting across the country so long as states claim partisan—not racial—motives.

That single distinction now determines whether federal courts may intervene at all. And the Supreme Court may strike down the Voting Rights Act’s section 2, thereby eliminating that final premise for obstruction of state redistricting.

The Supreme Court is currently considering a case, Louisiana v. Callais, that could significantly weaken or effectively gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discriminatory voting practices based on race. While the Court recently affirmed Section 2’s prohibition of discriminatory effects in a 2023 case (Allen v. Milligan) by upholding the requirement for a second majority-Black congressional district in Alabama, the current case raises new questions about the role of race in redistricting and the ability of voters to challenge purported discriminatory practices.

In practice, this would give lawmakers, especially in states with unified control, enormous freedom to redraw maps in response to shifting political winds or presidential pressure, as Texas, Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina have done.

Republicans gain one of their most important structural advantages heading into midterms that will determine whether Trump governs with a friendly House or faces a divided government. And with states from Virginia to California scrambling to redraw in response, the political map Americans vote under in 2026 may look dramatically different from the one they used just two years earlier.

Instead, it has triggered an open revolt inside the Democratic Party, with one of the party’s most prominent rising stars publicly branding her version of events “complete and utter bullshit.”

In a blistering interview with The Atlantic published Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro unloaded on Harris after being read passages describing his 2024 vice-presidential vetting session.

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“She wrote that in her book? That’s complete and utter bullshit,” Shapiro said, visibly agitated. “I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”

The confrontation marks the most direct intraparty attack yet on Harris’s book, which has already drawn private fury from multiple Democratic governors, cabinet alumni, and major donors. Sources tell this outlet that the Shapiro episode is merely the public tip of a much larger iceberg of resentment over how Harris is assigning blame for her 49-state electoral collapse.

At issue is Harris’s portrayal of Shapiro as overbearing and untrustworthy during their August 2024 meeting at the Naval Observatory. The book claims Shapiro bombarded the residence manager with questions about acquiring Pennsylvania artwork and, extraordinarily, which bedroom he would occupy as vice president.

Harris uses the anecdote to justify bypassing the popular swing-state governor in favor of Minnesota’s Tim Walz.

Shapiro pushed back hard. “I did ask a bunch of questions,” he told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta. “Wouldn’t you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?”

Multiple Democratic strategists familiar with the vetting process confirmed to this outlet that Shapiro’s inquiries were entirely routine and that Harris’s framing appears designed to retroactively rationalize a decision driven by pressure from the party’s progressive wing, which objected to Shapiro’s pro-Israel record and past support for school-choice measures.

The book has also sparked private denunciations from other potential 2028 contenders. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s allies have called Harris’s claim that he “never” returned her call after Biden’s withdrawal “flat-out fiction.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has privately disputed her suggestion that his sexual orientation factored into her decision.

Compounding the damage are documented factual errors. Harris misidentifies one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack and incorrectly labels Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht a “fentanyl dealer,” inaccuracies that have fueled accusations of petty score-settling.

The memoir’s release comes as Harris’s campaign finances are in shambles. FEC filings show the operation raised more than 1.5 billion dollars yet finished roughly 20 million dollars in debt after lavish spending on celebrity concerts, private jets, and last-minute advertising in non-competitive states.

Prominent Democrats including James Carville, megadonor John Morgan, and DNC finance committee member Lindy Li have demanded independent audits, with some openly accusing the campaign of mismanagement bordering on donor malpractice.

Shapiro, widely viewed as a leading 2028 contender, used the interview to deliver a broader indictment of Democratic elite condescension. He criticized Barack Obama’s 2008 “cling to guns or religion” remark and Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment as emblematic of the party’s coastal disconnect, comments both made at high-dollar fundraisers in San Francisco and New York.

“We can’t ignore the fact that elections are binary choices,” Shapiro said. “And so you’re asking people, at least in the last case, to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump… it was always Trump versus somebody.”

Translation from a seasoned Democratic governor: Harris was a deeply flawed nominee, the loss was entirely foreseeable, and rewriting history in a tell-all won’t change that math.

As one senior Democratic strategist put it off the record, “She raised a billion dollars, lost every swing state, and now she’s throwing everyone else under the bus. No wonder the party is furious.”

Kamala Harris, a politician once undemocratically selected to lead the Democratic Party, only to fail in her task to defeat their arch-nemesis Donald J. Trump, is uniting her colleagues in agreement that her future in politics, in Josh Shapiro’s memorable phrasing, is “complete and utter bullshit.”