"My time is up!"

Michael Goodwin reports in the New York Post about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Senator Booker.

The logic of Booker’s plan is obvious. Beyond how it lifted Harris in the polls, her attack revealed the liabilities of Biden’s record and weak debating skills. He was shocked by her broadside and, ­unable to give a coherent answer, aimed to escape by looking at the clock and declaring in defeat, “My time is up.”

To make his predicament even starker, Biden is scheduled to stand between Harris and Booker on a Detroit stage this week.

Biden’s mental freeze in the first debate is not surprising because the 76-year-old frontrunner probably assumed he was inoculated on racial issues by his faithful service as vice president to Barack Obama, America’s first black president.

But the attacks on Biden illustrate how much Dems have changed in three years. The Obama administration was the most leftist in modern times, but those days look almost modest by comparison to this year’s hysterical calls for impeaching Trump along with overt demands for socialist and race-themed policies.

...As David Brooks points out in his latest Times column, the audience for this far-far-left appeal is largely white progressives. Studies show there are more of them in the party and they moved further and faster to the left than black or Hispanic Dems.

One result, he writes, is that they see everything from immigration to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the prism of race.

“White liberals have warmer attitudes toward other races than they do toward their own,” Brooks ­insists.

The bizarre trend helps explain why attacks on “white privilege” are now required for candidates to prove their racial bona fides. An extreme example involves Beto O’Rourke, a wealthy white candidate from Texas who made his case for reparations by declaring that he and his wife are the descendants of slave owners. Even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who used to claim he was a moderate, now says he will support a Booker bill to study how reparations for slavery could be put into practice.

While all this sounds like an ­exclusive appeal to minority voters, it is also just as likely to be aimed at those whites embarrassed by their race.

...Indeed, as I wrote last week, the Mueller hearing was the latest ­example of how hatred of Trump leads his enemies to do really stupid stuff. Fixated on showing they are morally superior, they swing so far to make their case that they seem to be on another planet. They even want to undo economic polices that have created record-low unemployment for black and Hispanic Americans.

Having gone to foolish extremes with Mueller and impeachment, they are now ready to repeat the mistake with race.

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