CHICAGO — Although the barbarians outside the gates of the Democratic National Convention believe themselves to be opposed to Kamala Harris’s milquetoast support for our democratic ally Israel, even the angriest protesters admitted they like what the vice president has to say about the economy.
“We would love price controls that actually work,” one particularly hysterical demonstrator from Workers Strike Back said as he lambasted my suggestion that the Democratic presidential nominee would characterize herself as pro-labor. “The price controls that work are a working class that’s organized in powerful unions, that can win powerful games for working-class people, and that’s not the politics of your newspaper, is it?”
It’s less that the politics of the Washington Examiner want the working class to lose and more that central planning seldom results in the stated…