The refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians resulted in a “net-negative” of voters’ support, sources said.

As part of its secret “autopsy” report on how former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to President Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) now seems to concede that the Biden administration’s support for Israel amid its continued genocide against Palestinians in Gaza played a large role in her losing votes, sources with knowledge of the report’s…

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Let’s move back left slowly, in a measured fashion, not piss off all the fascists before we have a chance to win them over to our side. That’ll just result in another Trump.

    Naw fuck that. Let’s move left at lightning speed, and piss off the fascists with no effort at all put into placating them. The time for baby steps is long passed - that shit is what got us Trump in the first place.

    And just in case it needs to be said, defeating Trump isn’t the do-all-end-all here. The problem isn’t so much him personally as it is that a majority of our voters see the evil shit he’s doing and get a hardon from it. Defeating him is a first step, but we’ve got a loooong road of denazification afterward - none of it should be handled with kid gloves.