Colbert Interviewed Kamala Harris Last Night

A few minutes into the interview, I was suddenly sobbing.

I didn’t expect that the interview would have such an effect on me. Part of me didn’t even want to watch it. I was never a big fan of the vice president, but during the 107 days she ran for president last year, I found a lot in her that made me believe she could be a good president. I started watching because, for Colbert’s sake, after all, we won’t have him in that chair this time next year. After all, CBS/Paramount “capitulated (more on this word later).”

It started off nicely, and Ms. Harris seemed very relaxed and at ease, which made me feel those same stirrings of hope. Colbert was joking, Kamala was laughing as heartily as she wanted, without any concern that the cultists and Trump hate her laugh. Trump is incapable of laughing out of joy. He laughs when he abuses people or mocks others from behind his bully pulpit. When answering a question, Ms. Harris said that she opted not to run for governor because she didn’t want to be a part of the “broken system.”

“What you say, that the system is broken, is harrowing to hear,” Colbert said with a mix of shock and agreement.

“Isn’t it evident,” asked the almost-president, and the second great woman who was vanquished by a pedophile, rapist, and…