Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s perpetual lecturer-in-chief, is set to preside over a joint session of Congress to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory. The irony is thicker than Joe Biden’s favorite ice cream—after years of calling Trump a “wannabe dictator” and “petty tyrant,” Harris now finds herself in the unenviable position of certifying the very leader she and her party spent the last four years demonizing.
Harris released a video where she solemnly described her role as a “sacred obligation” to uphold democracy. The peaceful transfer of power, she proclaimed, distinguishes America from monarchies and tyrannies. Admirable words, no doubt, but coming from the same woman who branded Trump a threat to democracy, they land about as well as Biden on a bike.
Let’s not forget, this is the same Kamala Harris who, during her ill-fated presidential campaign, repeatedly insisted that Trump’s presidency endangered democracy. Her rhetoric was echoed by Joe Biden, who didn’t hesitate to label Trump a “fascist” just this past October. Their constant fearmongering about democracy’s collapse under Trump has been as predictable as it is tedious. Yet now, with Trump’s victory certified, the Democratic Party finds itself out of both power and excuses.
The irony doesn’t end there. Harris steps into a historical role shared by past vice presidents Richard Nixon and Al Gore, both of whom had to certify their opponents’ victories after losing presidential bids. That’s some elite company, but Harris’s forced participation in this process is less about history and more about poetic justice.
Meanwhile, Trump’s incoming administration is laser-focused on uniting the country through success. Incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt put it plainly: Trump will serve “ALL Americans” and unify the nation through results, not empty rhetoric. That’s a far cry from the Democrats’ four years of divisive identity politics and hysterical finger-pointing.
Even the so-called “dark chapter” of January 6 has been closed, with federal charges against Trump dropped by special counsel Jack Smith. The left’s long-running obsession with pinning that day on Trump has fizzled like one of Harris’s campaign rallies—empty, uninspiring, and ultimately irrelevant.
Harris wrapped her video with a familiar platitude about democracy being fragile and the government being of the people, by the people, and for the people. Maybe next time she can explain how demonizing half the country and embracing big government aligns with those cherished principles. Until then, conservatives can enjoy a rare moment of bipartisan agreement: Kamala Harris presiding over Trump’s victory is a beautiful symbol of democratic accountability and the ultimate poetic justice.
