After her loss became clear on Tuesday, it took 18 hours to compose the rhetorical flights of fancy she wanted, supposedly to inspire hope amid a Trumpian darkness closing in on her weeping followers.

“I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time,” she declaimed, “but let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars.” Her address was less a thousand points of light than a billion points of bulls***.

Harris could have acknowledged that Democrats lost their way with wokeness, record spending, inflation, and an open border flooded by illegal migrants. A true leader would have charted a new direction. But she didn’t. She gave no hint of understanding. Instead, she swore unswerving defiance.

 “The light of America’s promise will always burn bright,” she declared, “as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.” She said “fight” 20 times. She did not utter the word “change” even once. 

What does she want to fight for? For freedom, opportunity, and fairness, supposedly, which were in truth things her policies actually harmed. For abortion and against gun violence, the top items on the Democrats’ perennial litany. So, more of the same. Credit Harris for finally proving there’s no such thing as unutterable rubbish.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter what she says because Democrats will now drop her faster than a smuggler saying “adios” to illegal immigrants delivered to the southern border. Harris is history, just like President Joe Biden.

What the Democratic Party needs is not to be rid only of its two current leaders. It needs and the country needs a clean sweep of its entire top cadre. All of them should go away so the party can repair its damage and offer itself as a plausible left-of-center alternative government.

The ax should fall first on Barack Obama. It’s eight years since he ended his second presidential term. Yet he lingers like a bad smell. Why is he still here? Because despite his elegance of manner he doesn’t have the grace to get out of the way. He won’t allow others to rise to meet the challenges of today, so Democrats stay as radical as a Chicago South Side community organizer.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should also go. She quit as speaker of the House two years ago at the age of 82, supposedly to hand the party to a younger generation. Yet such is her control that it was she who guillotined Biden for being too feeble. True, he had to go, but should it have been his elder sister who ousted him?

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is talking about bipartisanship now that his party has been thrown from power. It would be much better if he talked of his own departure and exited stage left. Time has also surely run out for the superannuated socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

The whole pack of them must pack their bags and get out of Washington so the Democrats can get real again.