Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2019 vow to ban fracking and her subsequent alleged flop-flop reminds many working-class Pennsylvanians why highfalutin politicians are generally distrusted and perhaps loathed.
“The road to power is paved with hypocrisy,” as the character Frank Underwood in the Netflix show House of Cards neatly packaged it.
Harris’s sudden reversal on fracking policy was enough to sow skepticism, mistrust, and cynicism about her candidacy among working-class voters, but the reversal appeared even more sinister. Harris deployed an anonymous campaign aide to issue the flip flop to Politico — a Washington, DC, insider publication — a tactic that shields her from far-left attacks and distances her from any statement on the record.
Nobody in the Keystone State appears to know what Harris truly believes about fracking or…
