By rallying behind Harris, Democrats are compounding their mistake in supporting Biden until the unmistakable evidence of his advancing senility forced them to abandon him. Harris is a proven loser, a nonentity who's in the VP spot thanks to her gender and racial pedigree (Asian and Black, with a Jewish husband). Worse for her November prospects, her political instincts and record are to Biden's left. This is exactly the reason so many middle Americans prefer Trump — in spite of his serial lies and crimes (siccing the Jan. 6 mob on the Capitol to try to reverse his election loss; stealing Top Secret documents, disparaging the Constitution) — to left-wing Democrats who talk down to them and despise them as "deplorables." It was precisely such condescension in so much of what Obama said and did that handed the White House to Trump in 2016. Bottom Line: If the Democrats want to rally Americans to defeat Trump again, they can't do it by relying on "progressive" voters. Most Democrats, like most Americans, are centrists, with little patience for noisy outliers like the Squad and cranks like Sanders and Warren. Do not crown Kamala. Nominate a moderate in an open convention who can appeal to the center, someone in the mold of Joe Manchin. Otherwise, resign yourselves — and doom us all — to four more years of Trump!