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”
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.