Worth reading Jill Filipovic not just on the double-standard of dinging Kamala Harris for ambition but on why we ding ambition in politics at all.

Harris apparently also got on Team Biden’s bad side because she challenged Biden in a debate and had “no remorse.” She allegedly laughed and said “that’s politics” when it was implied she should apologize. Biden needs “a loyal no. 2,” and because Harris criticized him when she was running against him, she’s not it.

Harris’s actions were, literally, politics. And at least Harris criticized Biden’s actual policies. Remember when Biden said Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”? That wasn’t policy, but you bet your ass it was politics.