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Kamala Harris Sounds a Lot Like an Authoritarian

By David Harsanyi
Friday, February 01 2019

It wouldn't be fair to accuse presidential hopeful Kamala Harris of supporting state control over the means of all production. To this point, the junior senator from California is focused only on the energy, health care, auto manufacturing and education sectors. Good candidates prioritize. In this age of hyperbole, I sometimes worry about overusing words such as "socialist" and "authoritarian." Yet if we accept that an authoritarian is a person who favors or enforces strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom, I'm not…

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