If you wanted a snapshot of why Democrats are flailing post-2024, Alyssa Farah Griffin just handed it to you on a silver platter — and she used Kamala Harris’ latest media appearance as Exhibit A.
Harris went on Stephen Colbert’s soon-to-be-canceled late-night show — which Griffin called “the sinking deck of the Titanic” — to commiserate about “the system being broken.” CBS had already announced Colbert’s show was ending for financial reasons (it was reportedly losing $40 million a year), but of course, Colbert’s liberal allies are screaming it was political because, heaven forbid, Paramount settle a legal battle with Donald Trump.
Griffin wasn’t buying it. Speaking on CNN’s Table for Five, she described the interview as “a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with Democrats post-election.” Instead of grappling with real issues — the economy, a shrinking TV audience, and the fact that their messaging isn’t landing with voters — Harris and Colbert were doing what Democrats do best: performative whining about “democracy” while the ship sinks around them.
Griffin, who openly voted for Harris in 2024 despite being an anti-Trump Republican, didn’t sugarcoat it: “Announcing your exploratory committee on the sinking deck of the Titanic” is how she described Harris’ decision to use Colbert’s platform for her latest political theater.
Then CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten jumped in and obliterated Harris’ narrative about wanting to “stay outside the system.” Let’s be honest: Harris spent decades inside the system — California AG, U.S. senator, vice president, and presidential candidate. Now she wants to play the “outsider”? Enten wasn’t having it: “Oh, please… Not a chance on God’s green earth.”
Here’s the real reason Harris is “stepping outside”: the numbers. Enten flat-out said she’d be the “weakest front-runner since 1992” if she ran for the Democratic nomination in 2028. Translation: she’s seen the polling and knows voters aren’t lining up for another Kamala campaign.
And now? She’s writing a book. Because nothing says “serious political comeback” like a September release of “107 Days” — her reflections on what she calls “the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.”
Griffin nailed it. Democrats are still playing to an echo chamber that doesn’t exist anymore. Harris is out here reinventing herself as an “outsider” while promoting a book about her 2024 faceplant. And Colbert? He’s talking about “democracy” while his network hemorrhages money.
If this is the Democratic “rebuild,” it looks a whole lot like rearranging deck chairs on that Titanic Griffin mentioned.
