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Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump​

Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.​


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“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump

Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.
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“More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads.

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the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”

The letter describes an “awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”

“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states.

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“If our communities ally with the Green Party to defeat Harris, we risk marginalizing ourselves as they did by alienating the tens of millions of voters who support the cause of Palestinian freedom and are fighting to defeat Trump by electing her,” the letter continues.

The letter urges that after the election, they can hold Harris accountable with “every nonviolent tool of democracy.” Such tools would likely not be available under Trump, who has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and threatened to turn the military against his own citizens. …”
 
Paine said:
Progressives have tried to do that time after time. There’s always an excuse as to why progressive policy proposals aren’t being adopted. Now progressives are being sidelined for the Cheneys?
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Why do progressives (or, well, you) feel that appreciatively accepting the Cheneys and other disaffected repubs into the Dem coalition equates to progressives being "sidelined"? This sounds less like a policy issue than an attitude issue, else how could the word sidelined even come to mind? I really don't want this to come across as talking down to you, it's obvious you're voting for Kamala and that you support the broader liberal program that she represents, but why this feeling of being "sidelined" just b/c a group not characteristically associated with the Dems is getting some attention and love from the Harris campaign? Can't we all just get along? At least for the next 10 days? It's all hands on deck right now, we need every vote we can get. Let's just win now, then we'll have four more glorious years (at least) to get back to our regularly scheduled internecine bickering...
 
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nycfan said:

Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump​

Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.​


newrepublic.com

“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump

Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.
newrepublic.com newrepublic.com

“More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads.

…
the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”

The letter describes an “awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”

“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states.

…
“If our communities ally with the Green Party to defeat Harris, we risk marginalizing ourselves as they did by alienating the tens of millions of voters who support the cause of Palestinian freedom and are fighting to defeat Trump by electing her,” the letter continues.

The letter urges that after the election, they can hold Harris accountable with “every nonviolent tool of democracy.” Such tools would likely not be available under Trump, who has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and threatened to turn the military against his own citizens. …”
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This is exactly what needs to be said across the country, especially in Michigan
 
Duke Mu said:
GQP easily aligns with a Monster.

Progressives have to play the long game. No progressive legislation would pass in a Trump 2.0 admin.
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That’s the least of it. A further Trumpified Supreme Court will strike down progressive legislation for three decades. Then when we actually do get Democratic regimes, progressives will complain that they aren’t getting anything done (see Biden and student debt)
 
hedge said:
Why do progressives (or, well, you) feel that appreciatively accepting the Cheneys and other disaffected repubs into the Dem coalition equates to progressives being "sidelined"? This sounds less like a policy issue than an attitude issue, else how could the word sidelined even come to mind? I really don't want this to come across as talking down to you, it's obvious you're voting for Kamala and that you support the broader liberal program that she represents, but why this feeling of being "sidelined" just b/c a group not characteristically associated with the Dems is getting some attention and love from the Harris campaign? Can't we all just get along? At least for the next 10 days? It's all hands on deck right now, we need every vote we can get. Let's just win now, then we'll have four more glorious years (at least) to get back to our regularly scheduled internecine bickering...
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I’m worried the putting the Cheneys front and center in the final weeks of the campaign is going to demotivate some people who would otherwise be Harris voters.

Moreover, if Harris is elected and feels more beholden to conservative and corporate elements of the party, I worry about what that means for progressive policy priorities that will improve the lives of poor and working people.

Anyone that wants to talk about this just DM me. I feel like I’m clogging up this thread at this point.
 
nycfan said:
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I’ve thought for years this was a huge problem and a big part of what’s gone wrong here. Folks on the left defaulting to believing guardrails would hold and we’d all be fine in the end. Enough non-cultists on the right voting Trump in 2016 thinking “what’s the worst that could happen?”

This is still a problem, even now. Just because things have been fine here your entire life doesn’t mean they always will be. The vast majority of folks who lived thru WWII are dead. Everyone alive today has only known the post-WWII relatively peaceful world order.

There’s been an enormous collective lack of imagination on the part of Americans. It can happen here.
 
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