How Radical Is Kamala Harris?

When Kamala Harris ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019 she was asked by the ACLU to fill out a questionnaire to indicate what sorts of policies she would support. That document had been largely unnoticed since then, but a CNN investigative team called KFile recently found it and the answers Ms. Harris gave on the questionnaire are sincerely stunning.

She believes for example in requiring taxpayers to pay for sex-change surgeries for illegal aliens and federal prisoners, cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding, granting citizenship to eleven million illegal; immigrants, requiring insurance companies to pay for abortions, and much else.

Here's a list of what she supported five years ago:

• End private prisons and illegal alien detention facilities;
• "Support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use";
• Slash detention in illegal alien detention facilities by at least 50% and halt funding for the construction of new facilities;
• End the use of ICE detainers;
• "Pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million-plus people living in our communities";
• Seek a federal moratorium on the death penalty;
• "Fight" to make Washington, D.C., a state;
• "Require states with a history of unconstitutionally restricting access to abortion to pre-clear any new law or practice with the Justice Department before it can be enacted";
• Repeal the Hyde Amendment and "ensure that all insurers are required to provide full reproductive healthcare services"; and
• Ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

When Ms. Harris was asked recently by CNN's Dana Bash about several policy reversals - among other things, she had condemned the idea of a border wall when Trump proposed it but now claims to favor it, and also wanted to ban fracking but now claims to favor it - she insisted that her values had not changed. Presumably, then, she still holds the beliefs outlined in her reply to the ACLU questionnaire, she still opposes a border wall, and still opposes fracking for natural gas.

Add to these her desire to heavily tax unrealized capital gains and to allow the Trump tax cuts to expire, and her ideas are guaranteed to devastate our economy.

All the happy talk she utters at her public appearances won't change that.