Kamala Harris' And JD Vance’s Memoirs Explain Their Differences

LOADING ERROR LOADING One major-party candidate wrote a memoir that focuses on how growing up the child of a single mother shaped the person they’ve become and how they see the world. But Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris also wrote a memoir, 2019′s “The Truths We Hold.” It didn’t become a movie, but it did sell pretty well. “I knew they loved each other very much, but it seemed they’d become like oil and water.” A big factor in Harris’ childhood, according to the memoir, was the support Gopalan got from neighbors and others — especially Regina Shelton, a family friend whom Harris describes as a “second mother.” Shelton fostered several children and ran a small nursery school in her home, the memoir says. In addition to making that suggestion about “violent” marriages, he infamously told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Democratic Party was in the thrall of “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” Vance tried to dispel the controversy over those remarks by saying they were a joke and taken out of context, though he never sufficiently explained what was supposed to be funny or what context was missing, or why he’d made similar comments other times as well. Project 2025, a proposed governing agenda from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, calls for reversing Biden-era policies “focusing on ‘LGBTQ+ equity,’ subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage” — because, the document explains, families “comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society.” For America, A Stark Choice About Policy — And Family As strange as it sounds, it’s possible to imagine a world in which liberals who see things as Harris does and conservatives who think like Vance does could find some common ground, and even learn a thing or two from one another.