Billed as comedy, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS was in full form recently with guest Kamala Harris. The host ask Harris who is leading the Democrat Party? That’s a fair question for the most unnatural candidate for president in modern history. When she got the nomination, it was an anointing by way of a back room deal. Quite a feat for the party claiming to defend democracy.
Harris dodged the question of course and that’s where the comedy began. She said, “We have many leaders.” Does she mean Mamdani, Crockett and Bernie of the Bolshevik wing or Gavin Newsom the shape shifter or Fetterman and Shapiro of the Menshevik wing? It’s laughable that the party claiming to save our democracy has no clear leader, no clear direction.
A dismal protest by some 20 odd followers turned up to protest the CBS decision to end the Late Show. Colbert’s banter with Harris was proof why the show lost millions of dollars and an important fan base to prop up ratings. At the same, to the chagrin of lefties, Joe Biden is trying to stay in the spotlight (The Hill 5/9/25; Politico 5/11/25). How ironic that he is actually more visible now than when he was president.
I thought we were supposed to be unburdened by what has been? So who emerges as the leader of a divided Democrat Party? Perhaps it will be The AutoPen.
Ralph Miller