But there was little regret. Many said Democrats did not offer a viable alternative because Harris, the vice president at the time, did not distance herself enough from President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
I have such a hard time understanding the sentiment. Trump’s very first act in office in 2017 was to pass the Muslim ban. “Harris hasn’t distanced herself sufficiently from Israel” seems a weird hill to die on when the other guy literally wants to erase your entire religion and culture from planet earth.
Rhetoric is one thing; actions are another. Trump 1’s actions weren’t significantly worse than those of past American presidents. Now many people absolutely knew Trump 2 would be much, much worse than Trump 1 (not on Gaza though, to be clear), but most didn’t know/denied that before he took office in January. IIRC the mayor of Dearborn said something like “Trump targeted us once and he’ll do it again, but we were able to stop him once and we’ll do it again.”
“Harris hasn’t distanced herself sufficiently from Israel”
I have such a hard time understanding the sentiment. Trump’s very first act in office in 2017 was to pass the Muslim ban. “Harris hasn’t distanced herself sufficiently from Israel” seems a weird hill to die on when the other guy literally wants to erase your entire religion and culture from planet earth.
Rhetoric is one thing; actions are another. Trump 1’s actions weren’t significantly worse than those of past American presidents. Now many people absolutely knew Trump 2 would be much, much worse than Trump 1 (not on Gaza though, to be clear), but most didn’t know/denied that before he took office in January. IIRC the mayor of Dearborn said something like “Trump targeted us once and he’ll do it again, but we were able to stop him once and we’ll do it again.”
Gencoide is never a weird hell to die on.
When you do it, making missteps to make it worse. It is in that instance.