Harris’s speech nevertheless deserves attention. This is not because it was an exception, but because it was a completely banal and unexceptional chatter of words that could have been uttered by any other Democrat over the last 100 years. This is a major problem with Harris’s White House candidacy.

Like many other Democrats before her, Harris promised to “seek common ground and common-sense solutions.” She said she was “not looking to score political points.” To that end, and this is what is truly strange and disturbing, she promised to end “division, chaos and mutual distrust” by pledging “to listen to the experts.”

Democrats have aspired, promised, and attempted to govern by experts for at least as long as Woodrow Wilson administration. From President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration to President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, Democrats have relied on experts to make more and more economic and policy decisions. social. This has been done at the expense of citizens, at the expense of democracy, and for over 100 years the results have been disastrous.

The problem isn’t just that these reputable experts don’t know half of what they claim to know. It is also that their prejudices have become more and more partisan and more and more distant from and contemptuous of public opinion.

This has become abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic and government shutdowns. Despite limited knowledge of the nature of the threat, government experts have adopted the precautionary principle, implemented unnecessarily strict and damaging policies, and lied about them, allegedly for the public good.

Anthony Faucithen-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for example, opposed mask-wearing, then turned around and called for mandatory mask-wearing. He kept changing the percentage of the population that needed to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. He claimed his positions were supported by science, but later admitted they were nothing more than a “hunch.”

Let’s not forget the school closures caused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines that people stay 6 feet apart, which had no scientific basis and was pushed at the highest levels of the White House by teachers unions. Biden, the CDC and the teachers unions have not apologized for the damage they have caused by imposing unnecessary closures on schoolchildren.

The damage done by pundits under the Biden-Harris administration is not limited to COVID-related policies. Autoworkers across the country, but particularly in the Midwest, are losing their jobs due to the government’s misguided efforts to force unwanted electric vehicles on drivers. Not only did the Biden-Harris pundits fail to accurately predict the demand for electric vehicles, they also failed to build the infrastructure necessary to make electric vehicles reliable. Despite spend $7.5 billion to build 5,000 charging stations, the Biden-Harris administration only built seven.

No question better sums up the problem of bringing experts to resolve political disputes. Governing involves choices, and these are political. Delegating these choices constitutes a dereliction of political duty, characteristic of Harris.

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Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has empowered “experts” to decide which books should be in Minnesota libraries. This is not a decision that belongs to the experts but to the government. Instead of parents and elected school boards determining which books should be in a school library, under the Walz plan only “a certified library media specialist” with “a master’s degree in library science or library and information” is allowed to decide which books should remain in a school library. and which books go. Few academic disciplines are more corrupted by left-wing groupthink than librarianship. Relying on experts is a way to guarantee a left-wing outcome, setting aside the common sense and moral authority of ordinary people and allowing political “leaders” to shirk responsibility.

This is what Harris predicts for the next four years.