You Can’t Be Taken Seriously If You Say Kamala Harris in 2028

By The American Gadfly

It’s the summer of 2025. Donald Trump is back in the White House. The country is unraveling. Federal troops are deployed in liberal cities. Journalists are getting doxxed by proxy. The Supreme Court is dismantling what’s left of civil rights in slow motion. And the Democratic Party?

They're floating Kamala Harris.

Again.

If you're still saying the words “Kamala Harris” in relation to 2028, you’ve disqualified yourself from any serious political conversation.

You’re not a strategist. You’re not a realist. You’re not even a survivor. You are a glorified consultant LARPing as a resistance fighter, offering up last cycle’s warmed-over talking points while the world is catching fire.

I. We Lost. And Kamala Lost With Us.

Let’s get the facts on the table:

Kamala Harris was the Democratic nominee in 2024.

She lost. To Trump. To that Trump—post-indictments, post-coup attempt, post-everything. She had all the money. All the institutional support. All the supposed “electability.” And she got smashed.

Not because the country is racist or sexist—though yes, those currents exist—but because she was a hollow candidate. She inspired no one. She offered nothing. She stood on a pile of résumés and platitudes and hoped the symbolism would carry her.

And it didn’t.

She had her shot. And she blew it.
That’s not cruelty. That’s math.

II. The Party That Can’t Learn

What’s worse than running Kamala Harris once?

Running her again. Or even considering it.

It proves the party doesn’t learn. Can’t learn. Refuses to adapt.

The same people who are pushing her now are the ones who killed off the 2024 primary process. Who shoved her down the country’s throat under the guise of “unity.” Who threatened Black voter turnout if anyone challenged her. Who said, “This is her moment,” while half the base held their nose and independents tuned out entirely.

And now they want a rematch? Another doomed coronation?

If you’re still talking about Kamala in 2028, you’re telling us one thing loud and clear:

You’d rather lose with a resume than win with a risk.

III. The Anti-Candidate

Kamala doesn’t excite progressives.
She doesn’t reassure moderates.
She doesn’t even motivate Black voters anymore outside of cable news soundbites.

She is the anti-candidate—the one person capable of uniting both the left and the center in a shared emotion: apathy.

She doesn’t fight. She doesn’t punch back. She doesn’t connect. She speaks in a series of Google Doc bullet points assembled by a PR team with zero skin in the game.

In a fascist takeover, the last thing you need is a glorified LinkedIn profile.

You need a warrior. Kamala Harris is a mannequin.

IV. The Representation Trap

We need to talk about the elephant in the room.

Every time you criticize Kamala, someone cries identity.
“Would you say this if she were a white man?”
“Are you just uncomfortable with a powerful Black woman?”
“Representation matters!”

Yes, representation matters.
But survival matters more.

We are not in a normal election cycle.
We are in the back nine of American democracy.
And we are not going to beat a fascist cult with optics and slogans.

Running Kamala again in 2028 isn’t representation.
It’s cynical emotional manipulation of the very communities the party keeps betraying.

V. The Only One Fighting: AOC

While every other Democrat hides behind committees and posturing, one person has stood up again and again since Trump’s return:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

She’s not afraid to name the authoritarian creep in real time.
She calls out Biden-era compromises.
She confronts corporate power.
She connects with working people, young people, and Black and Brown communities without talking down to them.

She’s out there taking rhetorical bullets while the rest of the party holds fundraisers at wine caves.

Let’s be honest: AOC is the only one with the guts to fight for America like it’s a life-or-death situation—because it is.

And here’s the twist: The very Democrats who will ride her coattails—using her for energy, for turnout, for movement legitimacy—will be the first to say she’s too young, too radical, or too risky to run.

They want her power. But not her leadership.

And that’s exactly why they’ll keep pushing Kamala Harris—a known failure who won’t threaten their precious status quo.

VI. The Outsider Option (Yes, It’s That Bad)

Let’s say, somehow, AOC doesn’t run. Or the DNC rigs it again.
Then you’re left with one conclusion:

We need an outsider. Period.

And yeah, maybe that means:

• Mark Cuban: Billionaire, centrist, actual backbone.

• Jon Stewart: Respected, serious, could unite the disaffected.

• Matthew McConaughey: Yes, he’s untested—but at least he’s not pre-baked into everyone’s electoral trauma.

That’s how desperate it’s gotten.

The list of not insane, not establishment-captured, not hated Democrats is so short that we are genuinely better off calling in someone from the celebrity bench than trying to revive the Kamala Harris PR machine.

And that should horrify you.

VII. The Electability Hallucination

Here’s a rule: If someone loses to Donald Trump, they’re not electable.

You don’t get to fail that hard and get promoted. You don’t get to lose the most important election of your lifetime and say, “I’d like another crack at that, please.”

Kamala Harris didn’t just lose. She got trounced in swing states, turned off independents, and evaporated enthusiasm on the left.

There is no poll that saves her now.
There is no narrative pivot.
There is only a very sad, very delusional consultant class saying:

“Well, she deserves another chance.”

No. She doesn’t. America deserves a fighter.

VIII. What Needs to Happen Now

This is the moment for truth.

The Democratic Party needs to:

• Admit Kamala Harris is not the future.

• Embrace AOC or someone with real fire—and not just when it’s safe.

• Open the 2028 process to real competition—weekly debates, primaries with teeth, televised town halls that matter.

• Stop letting MSNBC hosts and donor-class echo chambers determine the narrative.

Because if we go down this road again, if we sleepwalk into another Harris coronation in 2028...

Trump might not even need to run again.

His system will already be in place.
His judges.
His army of governors.
His thought police.
His crypto-fueled domestic surveillance state.

And all the Democrats will have to offer is a tired slogan, a familiar face, and a rerun of a campaign no one watched the first time.

IX. Conclusion: Pick a Side

So yeah—if you say Kamala Harris in 2028, I know what you are.

You’re not a strategist.
You’re not a realist.
You’re not a fighter.

You’re a brand manager for a dying franchise.

Meanwhile, the house is on fire. And the only people grabbing hoses are the ones your party keeps sidelining.

So pick a side.

Because if Kamala Harris is your answer in 2028, you’ve already given up the test.

Signed,
The American Gadfly