The key fam­i­ly his­to­ry JD Vance and Kamala Har­ris have in com­mon

The ordi­nary person’s pri­ma­ry objec­tion to the pres­i­den­tial can­di­da­cy of Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris ought to lie in what she has done dur­ing the Biden admin­is­tra­tion (pre­sid­ing over an annu­al 6% infla­tion rate, a record mul­ti-mil­lion influx of ille­gal immi­grants, etc.) and what she has advo­cat­ed when pan­der­ing to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic base (endors­ing the full-scale elim­i­na­tion of pri­vate health insur­ance and frack­ing for exam­ple).
For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has instead honed in on the dumb­est ratio­nale to attack Har­ris for who she is. Trump ques­tioned why, after “only pro­mot­ing Indi­an her­itage,” the de fac­to Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee “hap­pened to turn black.”
It’s an idi­ot­ic polit­i­cal strat­e­gy to dis­tract from Harris’s gen­uine­ly rad­i­cal and incom­pe­tent record and, instead, ques­tion her immutable iden­ti­ty. But Trump also missed the real tragedy in the rea­son why Har­ris grew up with far less influ­ence from her black her­itage than he …