Kamala Harris appeared on a DNC virtual Get Out the Vote livestream on Monday, October 5th, and delivered this line with a straight face: "Our founders imagined a moment where a tyrant occupied the White House. This is the moment where the power of the people can kick in against the executive branch's abuse of power."
The people already kicked in. They kicked her out, 312 to 226.
The former Vice President — who lost to Donald Trump by 2.3 million votes in the popular count and 86 in the Electoral College — has apparently decided the Founding Fathers were writing about her personal grievances. Trump won 49.9 percent of the popular vote. Harris managed 48.4 percent. That was November 2024. The founders had a mechanism for moments like that. It's called an election. She lost it.
But here she is, stumping on a livestream, telling Democrats to feel powerful. "When you feel powerless, you are powerless. When you feel powerful, you are powerful," Harris said. Which sounds less like constitutional philosophy and more like a candle label at HomeGoods.
The timing tells you everything. Harris's book tour ended in April 2026. She's been making campaign stops for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, with scheduled appearances in Nevada, Georgia, and California. The midterms are a month away. This isn't a constitutional scholar sounding the alarm. This is a rejected presidential candidate trying to stay relevant by borrowing the Founders' credibility.
The Founders did, in fact, write extensively about executive overreach. They also designed a system where the public gets to weigh in every four years. The public weighed in. They chose Trump — with both the Electoral College and the popular vote for the first time a Republican had won the popular vote in 20 years. Harris's theory requires you to believe that the constitutional system worked perfectly when it elected her as Vice President in 2020 and then catastrophically failed when it told her to pack her bags in 2024.
Louder With Crowder noted the irony of Harris invoking the Founders while simultaneously campaigning for candidates across the country — the kind of bare-knuckle partisan activity the Founders themselves would have recognized instantly. They called it "faction." They warned about that too.
Harris also told the livestream audience that this was a fight for "the power of the people." The people spoke. Seventy-seven million of them chose Donald Trump. That's not a technicality or a loophole. That's the system doing exactly what the parchment says it should.
The Founders imagined a lot of things. A former Vice President losing decisively and then claiming the voters got it wrong probably wasn't one of them.
They had a word for the candidate who doesn't win. It isn't "prophet." It's "former."
