A Pres­i­dent Har­ris eco­nom­ic agen­da would be even more rad­i­cal than Biden’s

A President Harris economic agenda would be even more radical than Biden’s

Repub­li­can Gov. Mike DeWine extend­ed Ohio’s first-in-the-nation bal­lot dead­line to allow Democ­rats until Sep­tem­ber to nom­i­nate their pres­i­den­tial can­di­date this year, solv­ing a fil­ing date tech­ni­cal­i­ty that had seemed to threat­en Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s Buck­eye State bal­lot sta­tus. Still, Demo­c­ra­t­ic pow­er bro­kers have pro­ceed­ed as though the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee has only until Aug. 7 to for­mal­ize their gen­er­al elec­tion tick­et.
So even though Biden is polling worse than any Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date — much less, an incum­bent — against a Repub­li­can chal­lenger in 20 years, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty seems slat­ed to ignore the major­i­ty of its vot­ers who wish to replace the pres­i­dent in a fall fight against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, the 2024 Repub­li­can nom­i­nee.

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris attends a vir­tu­al round­table with par­tic­i­pants from Black Cham­bers of Com­merce across the coun­try to dis­cuss the Amer­i­can Res­cue Plan, Feb. 5, 2021, from the South Court Audi­to­ri­um on the White House com­plex in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Mar­tin)

In part, this may be a prod­uct of the par­ty elders accept­ing the inevitable. With the worst infla­tion­ary cri­sis since that whi …