Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris's Book, 107 Days

I don’t know if Kamala Harris found writing 107 Days cathartic, but reading it certainly wasn’t. Instead, the book, which unfolds in strictly chronological order, is a frustrating slog. It seems likely to alienate her critics further and provides no closure or hope for her supporters.

Harris has always been accused of sounding phoney; criticism she brushes off in the book as sexism. When Charlamagne tha God, host of popular radio show The Breakfast Club, observed that she came off as “very scripted” on the campaign trail, she retorted that it was actually “discipline.” The memoir was Harris’s opportunity to go off-script. Instead she sticks to her talking points.

. . . [107 Days] makes it clear [that Harris] still has blind spots about what went wrong. While a January YouGov poll suggests Biden’s unconditional support for Israel significantly affected Democratic voter turnout, Harris is largely dismissive of Gaza. Of demonstrators who turned up at campaign stops she asks: “Why weren’t they protesting at Trump rallies?” Can she really not understand? Because Trump was not in power at the time, and she was. Because President Biden made it clear he had no real empathy for Palestinians. Harris doesn’t seem to have much, either.

– Arwa Mahdawi
Excerpted from “107 Days by Kamala Harris:
No Closure, No Hope”
The Guardian
September 22, 2025

Kamala Harris still does not understand that her administration’s support for an ongoing genocide was not only morally horrific but cost her the votes of people with two eyes and a conscience.

– Nathan J. Robinson
via social media
September 23, 2025

Kamala Harris lost not because she’s a woman. Not because of voter tampering. Not because of faulty polls. Kamala Harris lost because she’s every bit of a war-mongering hypocrite as the orange embarrassment. If we are ever going to get our democracy back, it’s going to take a large chunk of the American people demanding we go left. TRULY left. Not this “fake left actually right of center” bullshit that we seem to fall for every four years.

– Raul Smith
via social media
September 23, 2025

In the following 35-minute Left Reckoning video, Matt Lech and David Griscom break down Kamala Harris’s failed 2024 presidential campaign and “why it seems she might be done.”





Related Off-site Links:
Kamala Harris’s Book Proves She Was Never Prepared to Be President – The Majority Report (September 28, 2025).
Briahna Joy Gray Eviscerates Rachel Maddow Over Pathetic Kamala Harris Interview – The Katie Halper Show (September 25, 2025).
Kamala Harris Failed Gaza and Voters – HasanAbi Archive (September 24, 2025).
What a Book of Excuses Reveals About the Democrats’ Future – The Opinions Podcast (September 27, 2025).
Kamala Harris Deserves the Backlash – Black Green Red (September 29, 2025).
Why Kamala Shouldn’t Run in 2028 – Raging Moderates (September 23, 2025).
The Real Reason Democrats Are Failing – Sabrina Salvati (Sabby Sabs, September 28, 2025).


See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• On This Momentous Day in U.S. Politics, a Visit to the Prayer Tree (2024)
• Memes of the Times – July 27, 2024
• “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win in November”
• Progressive Perspectives on an American Coronation
• Marianne Williamson: “I Hope I Will Hear Things from Kamala That I Can Full-on Support”
• Progressive Perspectives on the Presidential Nomination of Kamala Harris
• Breaking Down Kamala Harris’s DNC Speech on Gaza
• Yousef Munayyer: Quote of the Day – August 30, 2024
• Chris Hedges on the End of the American Empire
• Peter Bloom on the Unmasking of the “Democratic Charade”
• “It’s a Systematic Slaughter That We’re Funding”
• Progressive Perspectives on the Harris–Trump Presidential Debate
• Miles Kampf-Lassin on the “Flashing Red Warning Signs” for the Harris Campaign
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Faltering Presidential Campaign
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Presidential Election
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden/Harris Administration (2025)


Image: Kamala Harris, November, 2024. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)