You know there had to be a Massachusetts angle or two – and James Piereson at the New Criterion and Ed Kilgore at the Intelligencer have found ‘em. The former writes that all the excitement surrounding Kamala Harris reminds him of Michael Dukakis circa summer 1988. Meanwhile, the latter thinks Republicans will try to give Harris the 2004 John Kerry treatment. … Via RCP, both pieces are a bit of a stretch. I’ll be more impressed when they come up with a legit John Adams angle.

Update – I liked these lines from the NYT’s Ross Douthat on the Harris anointment:

“Democrats have made their peace with her nomination, but they are making a virtue of necessity, not crowning a victor or rewarding a great success. …

“For the establishment rallying around her, the question is whether the united front that’s contained Trump but failed to bury him has enough remaining juice, enough potency in spite of its divisions, to achieve a great and heretofore unlikely seeming feat: making Kamala Harris happen.”