Kamala Harris’s recent couch tour on The View was less a contrite reflection and more a reminder of why Americans rejected the left’s tired playbook in 2024. The former vice president spent her appearance revisiting a viral campaign moment and promoting a new memoir, but what stood out was the same tone-deaf loyalty that voters punished at the ballot box.
Harris told viewers she didn’t want to distance herself from Joe Biden and admitted she underestimated how hungry the electorate was for real change — an explanation that reads like political malpractice, not humility. Instead of owning the failures of the last four years, she offered excuses about time and messaging while blaming economic headwinds and even President Trump for voters’ frustrations.
Worse still, Harris’s book reportedly reveals the kind of backroom caution that produced weak picks and political cowardice, from agonizing over optics to passing on bold choices in the name of risk-aversion. That caution explains why the party keeps trotting out the same personnel and expecting different results; Americans aren’t fooled by polished remorse when the record still shows declining freedom and rising costs.
If Harris’s mea culpa was thin, Google’s bombshell to Congress should have been seismic: Alphabet lawyers admitted the Biden administration pressured platforms over pandemic and election content and said YouTube will now allow previously banned channels to apply for reinstatement. After years of silencing dissenting voices under emergency-era policies, Big Tech is finally being forced to answer for politically motivated censorship.
This reversal proves two things conservatives have warned about for years — the capture of private platforms by partisan actors, and the effectiveness of Republican oversight when it actually holds institutions accountable. House Republicans, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, pushed for answers and the result is a pilot program to bring creators back, a small victory for speech but a glaring admission of wrongdoing by both government officials and corporate executives.
Fox contributors like Evita Duffy-Alfonso were right to call out both the political theater of Harris’s reflections and the hypocrisy of the censorship regime that targeted conservative voices. This moment should harden conservative resolve: demand accountability, push for permanent protections for online speech, and never accept the idea that patriotic Americans should be silenced for dissent. The road ahead is to keep fighting for the First Amendment and for leaders who actually stand up for working families, not spin their failures on daytime television.