I voted for Kamala Harris – but I’m not surprised she lost

In the end, I voted for Kamala Harris, but I always knew she would lose. After all, if Harris had trouble convincing me—a mixed-race gay guy from Northern California—to back her, her chances were worryingly slim. And the Harris campaign — rushed and reckless, relying on the same hackneyed formula that defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 — appears to have lost the vast American middle in spectacular fashion.

The biggest problem for Harris is that she missed every opportunity to seem interesting. Here is a woman who was born to immigrants and educated at both Howard, one of America’s premier historically black universities, and California’s public higher education system. a big-city prosecutor with a fancy millennial, multi-ethnic family who somehow managed to still seem banal and out of touch.