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Kamala Harris personally made the comments in support of Israel’s genocide when questioned about Gaza when she was VP - those might have single-handedly cost her the election.
Biden admin did for sure fail Gaza, but Kamala is ultimately what handed decision making power over to Trump.
There’s also a good argument to be made, that while she was unable to speak out against Biden’s foreign policy while she was still his vice president, she may have changed that policy once she became president herself.
We’ll never really know at this point. However, it should have been obvious to everyone, that no matter how bad Biden was, Trump was never going to be a better alternative.
At the same time as a candidate she should have the freedom to say she’d do things differently
Apparently not. She was stuck in the difficult position of being both the candidate and the vice president. A candidate should be able to say whatever they want…but the vice president can’t. So, she was stuck trying to drop hints that she was open to a different strategy, but couldn’t actually come right out and criticize Biden’s current foreign policy decisions.
Don’t get me wrong, I did not like her as a candidate or a vice president. She was all-the-way-through establishment. But at this point, the situation in Gaza has completely turned off nearly everyone in the Democratic party…to the point where even the old guard can’t condone what’s happening anymore. There would have been plenty of room for taking a different approach to Netanyahu.
I highly doubt she would still be doing things the same way Biden did…and she’d definitely be doing things better than Trump.
She mentioned in other interviews that she wasn’t planning on doing things exactly the same as the Biden admin - I don’t think it was ever an expectation for her to, from the voters or admin. Even if she was wanting to walk on eggshells about it, it would have been as easy as “The Biden administration feels…” and leaving it that. The unspoken “But my opinion on it…” would have been enough to avoid the shitstorm she caused.
Her comments on Israel were unquestioning support for ravaging Gaza, with zero ambiguity about a potential misalignment with her personal stance.
I mean, obviously she should have done everything at least a little differently. She was horrible at communicating, didn’t appeal well to progressives, and in general just came off sounding wishy-washy on everything.
She made it impossible for anyone to actually “know” what she intended to do once she was president.
I mean specifically the issue of Israel’s genocide on Gaza and Harris’s support for it. She made her intentions perfectly clear. This wasn’t like a minor tweak she should have made to her campaign - she revealed to the world that she’s an evil sack of shit whose only appeal comes from the contrast with people who are even more evil and even more shit.
The strategic action was to vote for her anyway, cuz the other guy was a LOT more evil/shit, but people get predictably irrational about their purity tests, and between her malice and the ensuing wave of voter apathy, we got the much, much, much greater evil.
Which is incredibly stupid by the voters, since the alternative (and there are only two choices in the US) was infinitely worse for Gaza.
Agreed, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid or evil on Harris’s part. There’s a tendency to want to pin blame on a single person or group, but Trump winning - fucking twice - was the end product was the result of a perfect storm of stupid and malice, which spans the entire political system from top to bottom.
by “failed” she means her administration under full clarity and intentionality contributed to, planned, defended, participated in, and committed genocide.
Bitch you’re a war criminal.Given that they didn’t do a damn thing, saying they should have done more is a pretty low bar.
bit late innit?
Why has she suddenyl aged 30 years in that picture?
