Rachel Maddow and Kamala Harris opened their sit-down interview giggling like two schoolgirls, but the conversation quickly turned into something far more revealing. In the same breath that Harris smeared President Trump as a “tyrant” and a “communist dictator,” she also mocked America’s top business leaders as “feckless.” The irony was thick.
Harris said:
“So, as you know, I am a lifelong public servant, and I’ve worked closely with the private sector over many years. And I always believed that if push came to shove, those titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy, for the importance of sustaining democratic institutions. And one by one, by one, they have been silent. They have been, you know, yes, I use the word feckless. It’s not like they’re gonna lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons. And here’s the thing. Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And right now we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump…”
Harris calls America’s business leaders “ineffective, weak, or irresponsible” because they won’t serve her party’s agenda or help target President Trump and Conservatives. When they don’t obey, she sneers and calls them “feckless.” But obedience to the Democrat Party is not democracy.
And that’s the trick in her soundbite. When Harris says “democracy sustains capitalism” and “capitalism thrives in a democracy,” she isn’t talking about the Republic America was founded as. She means a system where corporations, media, and government all line up behind Democrats. To her, “democracy” simply means Democratic control.
Yet the very policies her party pushes suffocate capitalism — massive spending schemes, government overreach, and unconstitutional power grabs. Just look at the bill names. The “Inflation Reduction Act” hasn’t reduced inflation, but it did pump hundreds of billions into green subsidies and government-favored industries. The failed “Build Back Better” plan wasn’t about rebuilding America but about expanding federal control over healthcare, energy, and childcare.
Biden also tried to cancel $430 billion in student debt by executive fiat — a move the Supreme Court struck down in Biden v. Nebraska (2023). When that failed, his administration rolled out the SAVE Plan, which the Eighth Circuit blocked in 2025. These weren’t guardrails for democracy; they were end-runs around the Constitution.
At the same time, the administration weaponized regulations to crush industries it doesn’t like — from killing energy jobs by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline to imposing sweeping climate mandates aimed squarely at oil and gas producers. And while Harris praises democracy, the Biden White House was caught pressuring social media companies — exposed in the Twitter Files and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg under oath — to censor speech on COVID, vaccines, and even political debate. Silencing dissent isn’t democracy; it’s control.
So when Kamala Harris throws around words like “tyrant” and “communist dictator,” she’s projecting. The real threat isn’t President Trump — it’s a Democratic Party that rigs elections, grabs power through executive overreach, crushes industries, and censors opponents.
Real capitalism depends on free markets, competition, property rights, limited government, and secure borders. It can only survive within the framework of the Constitutional Republic America was founded as — a system guided by the Constitution, not raw democracy where simple majority rule can trample American citizens’ rights. Harris’s version of “democracy” is open borders, knowing non-citizens are counted in the Census, shifting political power to deep-blue states with more seats in Congress and more votes in the Electoral College — while government spending on them is spun as an “economic benefit.” That isn’t democracy at all — real democracy is when legal citizens choose their representatives and are put first, with an economy built to serve them. And if, as she claims, capitalism thrives in a democracy, then her party’s version of democracy does the opposite: it strangles capitalism, silences free markets, undermines the Republic, and hands political power to states padded with illegal immigrants under the banner of democracy.