The subheadline of a gauzy new update on the life and political career of Kamala Harris in the New York Times is a question that demands an honest answer: “She was seen for two decades as a future face of the Democratic Party. Is she now suddenly a figure of its past?” Subject to a possible future revision, the answer right now has to be: “Yes.”

Pretty clearly, the former vice-president and “more than two dozen current and past advisers and others close to her” interviewed by the Times’ Shane Goldmacher think she’s earned some time to reflect and recover from a tumultuous 2024 campaign year before plotting any future steps (other than the decision she’s already made not to run for governor of California in 2026). Without question, she deserves as much time out of the spotlight as she wants. It’s less clear she’s entitled to drag us all back through the ordeal all Democrats shared with her last year in a too-soon

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