Morning Jolt: No, Kamala Harris Didn’t Have a ‘Sister Souljah’ Moment Yesterday

WITH NOAH ROTHMAN

August 08 2024

No, Kamala Harris Didn't Have a 'Sister Souljah' Moment Yesterday

This is Noah Rothman filling in for Jim Geraghty one more time this week.

On the menu today: Do Democrats even remember what the "Sister Souljah moment" was? To judge from the initial reactions to Kamala Harris's scolding of a heckler from a Detroit rally stage on Wednesday night, it doesn't seem like it.

Indecision Isn't Courage

Midway through Harris's stump speech, the vice president was interrupted by protesters shouting slogans associated with the anti-Israel protest movement. In one conspicuously fluid motion, Harris departed from the script and, without taking a breath, castigated her tormentors — not for their moral vacuity but merely for their imprudence.

"You know what?" Harris asked. "If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I'm speaking." For this, the crowd went wild, as did some in the commentariat.

"Everyone has been asking the Democrats for a Sister Souljah moment," the center-left economics commentator Noah Smith ...

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