I wasn’t really ever suggesting that supporting Palestine would’ve outright won the election. I agree it was more complicated than that. Frankly, I think she lost because her campaign promises were incredibly weak and basically amounted to “Biden, again.” Almost nobody wanted that, so of course she lost! My goal with my comment was simply to push back against all the voter-blaming I see, which I consider both insane and callous for the variety of reasons I’ve already elaborated on.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, while it’s true that most Americans still support Israel, that number is dropping fast and is drastically different amongst Democrats. Which is rather important for a Democrat’s election campaign. Besides, let’s not worry about what Trump’s messaging would’ve been; if you don’t give fascists ammo to shoot you with, they make it up themselves. Basing your strategy around whether he’ll call you names is a losing move, because he’ll do it regardless.
The messaging which relentlessly connected Harris directly to the genocide in Gaza is only what they deploy against you,
Gonna be blunt for a sec: Maybe we heard it a lot because hospitals were being bombed? Leftists tend to get mad about that kind of thing.
Seriously, Biden’s admin sent Israel all the military equipment it could ask for, and Harris indicated several times she planned on continuing that trend. It’s not a right-wing psy-op, it’s war crimes.
I wasn’t really ever suggesting that supporting Palestine would’ve outright won the election. I agree it was more complicated than that. Frankly, I think she lost because her campaign promises were incredibly weak and basically amounted to “Biden, again.” Almost nobody wanted that, so of course she lost! My goal with my comment was simply to push back against all the voter-blaming I see, which I consider both insane and callous for the variety of reasons I’ve already elaborated on.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, while it’s true that most Americans still support Israel, that number is dropping fast and is drastically different amongst Democrats. Which is rather important for a Democrat’s election campaign. Besides, let’s not worry about what Trump’s messaging would’ve been; if you don’t give fascists ammo to shoot you with, they make it up themselves. Basing your strategy around whether he’ll call you names is a losing move, because he’ll do it regardless.
Gonna be blunt for a sec: Maybe we heard it a lot because hospitals were being bombed? Leftists tend to get mad about that kind of thing.
Seriously, Biden’s admin sent Israel all the military equipment it could ask for, and Harris indicated several times she planned on continuing that trend. It’s not a right-wing psy-op, it’s war crimes.