In her adoption of a swathe of Trumpian policies, only the naive would believe Kamala Harris had experienced some Damascene conversion.

Notwithstanding this, there have been no protests – not even a peek – from Democrat notables.

The explanation is that Democrat powerbrokers are agreed on three points.

First, there is no question that Ms Harris remains  a radical leftist but that, for electoral purposes, she is playing a chameleon, something to which she is accustomed as recounted in Peter Schweitzer’s Profiles in Corruption.