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The latter are overcome with a deep sadness and a sense of lost opportunity. Here we go again. That’s what you’re supposed to say, anyway. I’m not buying it. When I see Harris’s name leading a new 2028 poll, or get another hint that she may run again, I am overcome with giddiness. It’s an undeniable thrill. Her effervescent, hollow politics have been sorely missing from the public square, and we are worse for it. Her political resurrection cannot come soon enough. Washington is not naturally the coun- try’s happiest or funniest place in the best of times, and the past 18 months have been an exercise in extinguishing any remaining joy in the nation’s capital. The sense of humor that candidate Donald Trump brought to the campaign trail in 2024 has evaporated. The Trump who manned a drive-through window at McDonald’s - that unmistakable interna- tional symbol of America’s excesses and freedoms - has been replaced by a miserly Trump who talks about rationing pencils for schools and dolls under the Christmas tree. Sensible Trump policies like policing the border have morphed into a draconi- an immigration enforcement strategy that has resulted in the shooting deaths of six people, including two U.S. citizens. Prom- ising pledges to pursue peace through strength have disappeared, as have the country’s munitions and missile intercep- tors, spent on a new war in the Middle East eerily reminiscent of the forever wars the president once railed against. There’s no joy to be found in any of that. A little light relief has been in short supply. Not even America’s 250th anniver- sary celebrations provided respite: What could have been an inspiring, unifying moment for the country turned into a politicized affair, marked on the National Mall by musicians refusing to perform at the Great American State Fair and a soggy late-night Trump political rally masquer- ading as a Fourth of July celebration. Some uplifting cheeriness is needed immediately. “We each have light inside of us,” the former vice president told Don Lemon on YouTube in June. “And when we feel that and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead let that light kind of carry us, in particular through moments of darkness, that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other.” There it is. The word salad. The mixed metaphors. Inject it into my veins. I defy even proud cynics and persistent pes- simists to listen to this attempt at inspira- tional messaging without cracking a little smile. This is Harris’s gift to America’s political discourse. She is the antidote, the wel- come comic relief amid today’s heaviness. Trump also serves up plenty of word salads, but his ramblings trend toward the nasty and purely partisan. Harris’s empty platitudes can be enjoyed by all, so vacuous that they can be savored with no danger of compromising one’s political leanings. If you support Medicare-for-all or a private insurance model, Harris does too. If you want to frack, baby, frack or push through the Green New Deal, Harris does too. No need to compromise your beliefs; Harris does it for you. It’s an act of public service, trying to bring together a bitterly polarized country. Harris’s decision last year not to run for California governor was alarming - the public would be deprived of her takes on today’s pressing issues. For example, what does the former vice president think about the future of artificial intelligence? If her iconic remarks in 2022 about technology and rural broadband in Loui- siana are anything to go by - “So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs” - the na- tion is long overdue for her take on federal AI preemption and government approval for chatbot models. Harris’s virtues might seemmisaligned with the virtues of leadership, but the latter have been politically obsolete for years. With the former vice president hovering near 30 percent in Democratic primary polls, well ahead of many poten- tial rivals, she is climbing back to political prominence. With luck, that will soon translate into airtime: the return of drip- ping interviews and the revival of the Los Angeles Times’s “Covering Kamala Har- ris” beat, launched in 2021 to track “her historic rise.” Losing every swing state in 2024 might turn out to have simply been a stepping stone to greatness. We will get all the platitudes we deserve. Kate Andrews is an opinion journalist for The Washington Post. Prior to joining The Post, she was Eco- nomics Editor and U.S. Deputy Editor at The Spectator. - TheWashington Post By Kate Andrews Killing The FilibusterWon’t Fix ABroken Congress - Continued On Page 4 S en. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) says that while he used to support the filibuster, “at this point in time,” his party should heed President Donald Trump’s call to eliminate it. Sen. Darline Graham (R-South Carolina) has joined the chorus, breaking with her late brother’s commitment to the filibuster. The conservative case against the filibuster, which requires most legislation to get 60 votes in the Senate, comes in two flavors. The low, political one urges Republicans to use this mo- ment of power, when they hold both houses of Congress and the White House, to enact major legislation that moves the country in their direction for the long haul - and before Democrats have a chance to end the filibuster themselves. The high-minded, institutional case suggests that the filibuster ties the hands of Congress when it needs to fight to reclaim its power from the executive and judicial branches. By Ramesh Ponnuru Opinion News India Times (August 8, 2026 - August 14, 2026) August 14, 2026 3 PHOTO:TheWashington Post