Stephen Miller didn’t mince words as he reflected on the Democrats’ disastrous 2024 experiment, calling out Kamala Harris’s campaign for what it was: substance-free and doomed from the start. The White House deputy chief of staff for policy told Fox that Harris repeatedly displayed the kind of hollowness voters smell a mile away, a reality that helps explain why the ticket collapsed at the ballot box. For hardworking Americans who watched the spectacle, Miller’s blunt assessment — that her candidacy was more theater than leadership — was not surprising.
Harris’s own post-campaign book only adds insult to injury, with behind-the-scenes accounts describing frustration over Tim Walz’s debate performance and the awkward choreography of a rushed ticket. Reporters who covered the campaign and postmortems highlighted how Walz’s stumble in a key debate and the campaign’s caution amplified voters’ doubts about competence and vision. Those revelations make clear that the problem wasn’t just a bad ad or two — it was a fundamentally hollow campaign built around optics, not policy.
Democrats stacked the deck with a late pick, a blink-and-you-miss-it campaign window, and a playbook of risk-avoidance that never gave voters a reason to believe in the team. Walz himself admitted the campaign played it safe and that keeping him boxed in only made matters worse, confirming what conservatives have been saying all along: when you sell a message-free ticket, you get a message-free result. The political professionals who thought they could paper over weakness with media spin were proven wrong on Election Day, and the party is still paying the price as it scrambles for answers.
Miller’s warning about the media’s protective bubble around Harris hits the nail on the head — legacy outlets can prop up a candidate’s image for a time, but they can’t manufacture competence. Conservatives have watched for years as the left’s personalities are elevated by friendly press cycles, only to implode under the pressure of real scrutiny; the “empty vessel” label is not an insult, it’s a diagnosis. If Democrats think another round of rebranding will fix what is fundamentally a lack of leadership and clarity, they’re in for another rude awakening.
This moment should steel conservatives rather than make us complacent: we must keep holding the line, exposing hollow narratives, and offering a real alternative rooted in common-sense policy and American exceptionalism. The voters who delivered the 2024 verdict did so because they want competence, security, and prosperity — not another teleprompter performance. Keep calling out the failures, keep fighting for an agenda that actually helps working families, and don’t let the media’s spin machine bury the truth.
