Pro-Palestinian Activists Gave Trump a Boost. They Have No Regrets.
Pro-Palestinian Activists Gave Trump a Boost. They Have No Regrets.
Groups that rallied against Biden and Harris say they’d do it all over again.
Activists say the reason for this is that they do not have the same juice within the Republican party as they do among Democrats, and have little ability to influence Trump’s policy approach. So they continue to focus on the party where their influence remains.
Astroturfed groups run by foreign actors and domestic terrorists admit they got the result they actually wanted, which was a Nazi controlled government.
Fuck off with that shitty distraction.
Congratulations, you killed Gaza.
So tired of centrist whining and refusal to acknowledge what they did. If they hadnt backed a genocide we wouldnt all be in this mess. And they did that because they were too cowardly and unprincipled to stand up and stand with the right side of history. How much hubris and stupidity do you need to try to run a pro genocide campaign from the party that thinks of itself as the left.
Biden and Co killed Gaza and liberals allowed them to do it by refusing to ever hold them accountable while spreading their lies of a ceasefire. 50 years of no accountability gave us incremental fascism.
The article itself, several paragraphs down, admits you can't attribute trump's win to Palestine activists:
"It’s hard to determine just how much of an impact efforts like Uncommitted or Abandon Harris had in the election results. After all, exit polls showed that voters were motivated more by the economy than by foreign policy. But in battleground states with large Arab-American populations, like Michigan, data suggests that the Israel-Hamas conflict turned people away from Harris. In Dearborn, the country’s largest Arab-majority city, election data showed that Trump won 42 percent of the vote while Harris received 36 percent—significantly less than the 69 percent that Biden earned in 2020.
But the activists note that it wasn’t just Dearborn and other Muslim-American enclaves that moved toward Republicans in 2024—nearly every district in the country moved to the right as well."
You can't attribute it to any one thing. They absolutely contributed. If Democrats lost by double digit percentage. I'd say they didn't contribute that much. Trump won by just a few percentage overall. The activists were clutch in fascisms victory.
On the surface, I get it. Biden and Harris were "optically in charge". Just not really in charge when it comes to Israel. Congress is. It's capture by Israel is pervasive and systemic. Changing out the president was never going to make it better.
Worse yet, Republicans have a super power. They get to be lawless while Democrats must be perfect. And in that way Republicans hypocritically weaponized and stirred the pot along with foreign actors. For something they were just as guilty of. This systemic problem was placed solely on the shoulders of the president. And not just by the activists. But by the wealthy owners of mass media looking for another tax cut to horde more wealth. Donald trump telling Bibi to ramp up the genocide went so minimally covered that many Palestinian citizens voted for him. Thinking he was better. The activists were played and manipulated masterfully. And all it took was Consolidated ownership of the media. Propaganda Works folks.
First, it is the job of the political party to convince the voters to vote for them. But even then, we don't actually know if the outcome for Gaza would be any different under Harris (I'm only referring to the two campaign ads shown, ignore the commentary after). Maybe the Democrats, with an eye toward the next election, could have said "hey we're gonna lose Michigan unless you take a tougher line with Netanyahu".
I don't think it took much of a "masterful play" or much influence at all for the Palestinian and middle eastern origin populations in Michigan to demobilize or protest vote. They had been watching intense and horrific destruction of their families and place of origin for more than a year at that point and they watched Biden, with Harris as VP, transfer weapons and funding to Israel while reiterating their support for Israel and weakly "warning" them about going too far.
It's a bit infantilizing to say that the Palestinian-Americans "got played", as if they couldn't see what was happening in one of the central issues of their lives and make a choice.
I will personally execute one
hostagevote everyhourfour years until they give in to my demands. Lmk when the democrats come to the table with a serious offer, then we'll talk.Anti-iraq war protesters killed John Kerry's presidential bid and led to 4 more years of Bush. Did that mean the democrats ran away from the issue and everyone supported the Iraq War?
No, we changed leadership and polling so much so that we finally got out of the war. The option shifted so hard that in 2015 the only republican in a huge field of candidates that said the Iraq war was a failure won the primary, the whitehouse, and (eventually after he left) got us finally out of Afghanistan. (Yes I know that was Biden, but was odd that Obama didn't do it).
Anti-iraq war protesters killed John Kerry's presidential bid and led to 4 more years of Bush.
The Swift Boat shit was 100% a conservative op. They were not anti-Iraq in the slightest.
Uh... But genocide?