The cause of Kamala Harris’s disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.

By Mitchell Plitnick
November 9, 2024

Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. He is the co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Mitchell’s previous positions include vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Director of the US Office of B’Tselem, and Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There is no shortage of answers to this question, most of them self-affirming and offered up to serve whatever agenda the pundit in question is trying to advance. That is certainly what you’re seeing now on CNN and MSNBC.

    I’ll take your word for it, because I know better than to watch/read the garbage on CNN & MSNBC.

    I think it’s very fortunate that Harris lost by such wide margins both electorally & popularly, because that negates a lot of bullshit excuses for her loss, like for instance third-party voters or Russian interference. The DNC has run out of scapegoats and needs to finally look in the mirror for its failures. They lost to the same joke of a candidate again, through all faults of their own, through unforced errors.

    This white-hot rant argues that this loss can’t be written off to incompetence, and I’m finding it pretty compelling: Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed