Who Is the True Leader: The One Touring the Country to Hear Struggling Americans, or the One Focused on Saying "I Told You So"?

As Americans grapple with rising costs and political fatigue, a growing divide emerges between performative leadership and grassroots presence within the Democratic Party.

While Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is touring the country, meeting struggling Americans face-to-face, Kamala Harris — the so-called leader of the Democratic Party — is busy staging public appearances centered around one message:

"I told you so."

"I told you so," she said at a recent press event, as if rubbing salt in the wounds of a battered electorate …