Kamala Harris Pulled Off a Miracle
newrepublic.com
The fact that the election is a toss-up, rather than a Trump landslide, is a testament to the vice president’s political skills.

Summary

Kamala Harris’s political skills have transformed a potentially disastrous 2024 presidential election into a competitive race.

Despite initial skepticism and a challenging campaign, Harris has improved her public image and closed the gap with Trump on key issues. Since Biden stepped aside in July and endorsed her, she has shifted from an unpopular vice president to a viable candidate, even matching Trump in polls on economic issues.

Her leadership has given Democrats a chance to prevent a Trump landslide and halt the rise of American authoritarianism.

  • blakemiller@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Prepare for Gaza to be handed to Israel under Trump. Same with Ukraine to Russia. And we’re only talking about the tangible situations without even considering the soft power impacts of putting him back in power. That’s the world order risk, and you can choose to “win” the battle (spoiler: you won’t) but it will forfeit all future ones (e.g. Korea, Taiwan, who knows what else domestically). You can’t choose to criticize one platform by one measure yet use a different measure for the other. Trump is objectively worse if you care at all about genocide, and therefore yes you as a candidate do demand the vote of others who think the other is worse. FPTP demands strategic voting. You vote for the person that aligns closest with you. You do your neighbors poorly when you decide to vote based on a single issue, so I think your observations about her campaign say more about you than it does about her.

    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      like i said you’re not bringing anything new to this conversion. I’m well aware about whats currently and going to continue happening in the middle east, and elsewhere. stop assuming people don’t know whats to come just makes you look foolish. we did this entirely eyes open. not our fault harris and people like yourself thought it was a bluff. it mostly just demonstrates the supreme lack of empathy harris (and those like her) have.

      The gall telling people to begging for their friends and family to not be murdered to ‘stfu, and vote for the lesser evil’ when the lesser evil is literally the one murdering them.

      If you want to know a secret, I would have voted for harris if she was at risk in my state, but 1) she wasnt, 2) the arabs community wouldn’t, 3) they needed all the support they could get.

      I was happy to help them attempt to push harris and the DNC, as you should have been. if more people took my stance and tanked harris’ campaign even harder earlier maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. sometimes a little empathy is all you need.

      You’re assertion about FPTP, again you’re assuming I don’t already understand FPTP. I apparently understand it better than you do. Since I know when I can break with the theory based on contextual conditions in my state. I also know I can lie to my candidates/pollsters/you about my positions leading up to the election in order to get more than I really need to commit my vote.

      I also understand FPTP theory doesn’t account for human behavior and that murdering peoples friends and family will naturally be such a stressor they won’t give a shit about its theory. I know I fucking wouldnt. so next time be more empathetic towards people being murdered and maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.

      • blakemiller@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        We as a nation lessen our ability to make those type of influential impacts on foreign affairs when we elect unpredictable and egotistical leaders. Put your own mask on before you help others. As long as we keep infighting like this, the Christian nationalists will continue to win. FPTP is strategic voting and strategic voting only. This type of division foments and spreads and it is so crucial that we instead focus on supporting empathic leaders who can evolve and iterate their platform for the greater good. You stopped paying attention to her campaign if you didn’t see that. But it goes back to the nuance of the situation in a post-inflationary economy, and unfortunately the incumbent historically has always lost. The first chance at harm reduction was for the GOP to not choose Trump. The second chance was to buck with history and reelect the incumbent party.

        • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          5 days ago

          sigh okay I’m done. please continue re-reading the last post until you understand what I’m telling you, i edited in a few extra details. You keep thinking I dont understand the implications. but its clear you don’t understand human behavior enough and think you can keep nattering at people with your theory they’ll eventually be swayed.

          I in no way was fighting you or harris. I was helping arabs. you have yet to give a single fucking reason harris couldn’t have shifted positions that a community of people would fucking accept their family members being murdered and that cost harris 25 points in the electoral college at a fucking minimum.

          Instead you’ve been nattering on about all the other problems that will crop up because trump won. well guess what, their family and friends matter more to them than ukrainians, lgbt, etc. You need a reason that can convince people to accept the murder of their family and friends. and good fucking luck.

          So kindly take your own advice and stop cutting off your nose to spite your face over support for a fucking genocide. Because there is no argument you can make, that I havent already heard, or thought of in the last year that will counter what I’ve been telling you and you’re just going to have to accept that.