Kamala Harris Was Right, Trump is a Traitor

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris issued a warning that many dismissed as hyperbole: Donald Trump could deploy the military against the American people. Today, that warning reads less like political theater and more like a prescient assessment.

Harris was not lying. She was not exaggerating. She was interpreting the signs of a leader who is a despot and a traitor to the Constitution, whose rhetoric and actions revealed a dangerous disregard for democratic norms. Trump’s repeated threats to use federal troops domestically, his calls for loyalty above all else, and his broader authoritarian tendencies were clear indicators of a potential constitutional crisis.

During the final months of the 2024 campaign, Trump publicly suggested that military intervention could be used to enforce his policies, and Harris’s warning accurately captured the gravity of these statements. Her words were rooted in observable behavior, not conjecture.

Since the election, Trump has pursued actions consistent with the concerns Harris raised. Federal troops have been positioned in U.S. cities under the guise of public safety, generating legal and political pushback. These developments are not hypothetical; they represent a real risk to democratic norms and civilian control of the military.

For 249 years, the United States has stood for freedom, rule of law, and the principle that the military exists to serve the people, not to intimidate them. Every action that undermines these principles is a betrayal of that legacy. Harris’s warning was a measured response to real threats—a call to recognize and resist a despot, a traitor now attempting to twist the nation into the opposite of everything America has stood for.

The lesson is clear: vigilance is essential. Speaking truth to power is not partisan. Recognizing threats to democracy is a civic duty. Kamala Harris did exactly that. It is time for the American people to listen.

By Tom Schmerer