"What doomed Harris wasn't just the Democratic Party's leftward shift on racial and criminal-justice issues. It was the party's lack of sympathy for the very different political environment Harris faced just a few years ago, when women and black candidates faced intense pressure to show that they were tough on crime.
"This is among the strangest twists of the 2020 presidential campaign. For good reason, Democrats have grown less tolerant of racism in the criminal-justice system. Yet that very intolerance—combined with insufficient recognition of the particular burdens that black women candidates face—has helped push the only black woman running for president from the race."
Peter Beinart at The Atlantic writes that had Sen. Kamala Harris "been the crusading criminal-justice reformer that Democrats now want to see, she would likely never have been in a position to run for president in the first place."
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