Nasty Wit as Asset

I think she’s got a little bit of a nasty wit. -President Donald Trump referring to Senator Kamala Harris on Hannity

Thank you, Mr. President, for this endorsement of Senator Kamala Harris in her campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

That’s right. I said endorsement.

Nasty wit means smart, sharp, quick. It has sizzle. Sometimes it’s vulgar. It plays no games. At its best it’s a mic drop.

Please, bring me nasty wit in my next President.

I am all about nasty wit. It took me a bazillion years to embrace my own, but now that I have I’ll be damned if I’m going to let some sexist, humorless blowhard try to make it into an insult. I see a lot of the well-intended pushback to the President’s comment is defensive, though. As if we need to protect Harris from this kind of remark. Why?

Perhaps a little refresher about how Kamala Harris finds herself on the national stage is in order. You could spend an afternoon watching her clips on C-SPAN in exchanges with Rod Rosenstein, Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, Gina Haspel, Christopher Wray and Kirstjen Nielsen, but I’ll save you the trouble and highlight a few from the array of hearings we’ve had the past few years.