In our divided nation, it is difficult to write something that irritates both political sides in equal measure, but Kamala Harris improbably has managed to do so.

The matter concerns the viability of the former transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, for the role of vice president. In her new book, “107 Days,” former Vice President Harris says she considered Buttigieg for the position but decided that, while he’d have been perfect if he were a straight, white male, his being gay was just too much of a risk.

“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she wrote. “Part of me wanted to say, ‘Screw it, let’s just do it.’ But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”

Opportunistic critics on the right saw t

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