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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22390256

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 [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    When voter turnout is this depressed, it is not due to apathy, but to disillusionment.

    No investigation, no right to speak*, and yet: “they” tell me the “ground game” is important, which I think means that the mass of volunteer canvassers are important. Am I wrong to imagine that these volunteers tend to be on the young side?

    How many young people did the Harris campaign think would be excited to volunteer for genocidaires?

    This was the thought process that had me doubt a Harris victory, and I’d be interested to be able to compare the volunteer canvassing person-hours for each party in the last three pres. election cycles.

    *I’m the furthest thing from a US electoralism expert, and not all the data is even not in yet never mind analyzed.