“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”
So says George C. Scott’s Patton in the eponymous movie when his comrades want another day’s rest during the Sicilian campaign.
No one is going to mistake Kamala Harris for General Patton, or even George C. Scott, but her latest tack on immigration honors his call for “audacity, audacity, always audacity.”
After helping preside over a comprehensive failure at the border, a lesser politician might mumble something or other and change the subject to aborting babies.
A politician with an ounce of respect for the public might at least acknowledge, before saying anything else, that “mistakes were made.”
A politician less certain that the media would swallow any set of absurdities deemed in her interest might hesitate before making such facially preposterous claims.