Editors at the Washington Examiner probe the vice president’s policy record.

Democrats, in substituting a lucid 59-year-old for a fading 81-year-old, also replaced a career pragmatist with a lifelong left-wing ideologue.

Vice President Kamala Harris, now that she is the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, should be forced to answer for her decades of extremist positions on foreign policy, race, abortion, and the environment, among others. Does she still hold these views? If not, what changed her mind?

Harris, by some measures, was the leftmost member of the Senate, even more extreme than avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the least bipartisan Democrat in her brief stint there. She co-sponsored a bill to socialize all healthcare in America (“Medicare for All,” they call it) and explicitly said private insurance should be illegal. Under fire, she moderated, saying she might tolerate a private insurance industry co-existing in her favored socialized healthcare scheme.

Her environmentalist record is also extremist. “There’s no question,” Harris stated in 2019. “I’m in favor of banning fracking.” Fracking is the most important part of American energy exploration, which has been the single greatest check on Biden-Harris inflation. Her extremist view would not only make us dependent on Russia, Venezuela, or the Middle East for oil and gas, but it would also wreck our economy.

The Green New Deal is a radical agenda aimed not only at replacing all reliable energy with renewables but at reshaping our entire society into a utopian left-wing dreamworld. Harris, of course, was one of 11 original co-sponsors, placing her at the left end of the party.

On abortion, Harris is an absolutist and a zealot. She vehemently refuses to grant any rights to the unborn at any stage in fetal development. She co-sponsored a bill to legalize abortion “without limitations.” She prosecuted a pro-life activist for exposing Planned Parenthood’s trade in human body parts.

“Radical” is an apt word for Harris’s activism. She raised money for arrested rioters whose politics she supported. As riots raged in the summer of 2020, with fire and property damage and violent threats, Harris cheered them on.