Babylon Bee, or the NYT?
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Our new ambassador to Iowa
This site claims to be quoting Thomas Friedman, from the New York Times. In this era of fake news, I’m skeptical.
“Kamala Harris Deserves a More Important Job”:
Harris is too smart and energetic to be just the vice president, a position with few official responsibilities. I’d love to see President-elect Joe Biden give her a more important job: his de facto secretary of rural development, in charge of closing the opportunity gap, the connectivity gap, the learning gap, the start-up gap — and the anger and alienation gap — between rural America and the rest of the country.
Kamala Harris is a natural for that task. Who better to bridge Silicon Valley and the rural valleys of America?
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Harris will soon be the first woman, the first Black and the first Indian-American vice president, which certainly resonates with a lot of urban voters. However, if she could make herself the person in the Biden cabinet who always shows up FIRST to listen in rural America and the FIRST to appreciate its concerns and the FIRST to make sure its concerns are addressed, she and the Democrats could make themselves competitive in a lot more rural counties.
