Gertrude Stein famously said of her hometown Oakland, CA, “there is no there there.” She coined a clever phrase to say it didn’t have much to recommend it.
Stein thought Oakland generic and bland, accurate enough when she said that. Now it is much worse, a real s***hole.
It strikes me “there is no there there” is an apt description for Kamala Harris, she is generic and bland. With accomplished parents, she is an unfortunate example of “regression to the mean.”
She’s gotten this far as an affirmative action hire or candidate, taking full advantage of what Bush 43 condemned as the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
