Kamala Harris has had a golden opportunity to show real leadership with the devastation that's destroyed so many of the US's small rural towns in the recent hurricane's wake. She's failed miserably. She could have galvanised the federal government's responses - instead, FEMA has largely done nothing while threatening private individuals with prosecution if they use their own resources to help. These folk don't vote Democrat in the main so, you know, screw 'em. It couldn't be clearer.

And yeah, her cackling would make hyenas jealous.