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Kamala Harris lost to anti-Zionist extremists in the Democratic Party

Umito November 9, 2024

It’s a fiasco.

Yes, The defeat of Kamala Harris it could have been worse. George McClellan, who challenged Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, won just 5 percent of the Electoral College. Barry Goldwater, who ran against Lyndon Johnson after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, won only six states, and Alf Landon, who faced Franklin D. Roosevelt as he fought the Depression, did not. only won two.

Still, this week’s loss is worse, because these races were unwinnable, regardless of who and what platform the losers were on. The duel with Donald Trump was winnable. The winner – a serial liar, notorious bigot, proud ignoramus, political charlatan, abuser of women and convicted felon – was vulnerable from head to toe.

So who lost in this election, what caused the defeat, and what will prevent it from happening again?

The defeat, many say, was Kamala Harris’s. She was the candidate, she shaped the campaign, and she failed to impress the deciding vote, both as a candidate and as vice president.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, delivers a speech conceding the 2024 U.S. presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, at Howard University in Washington, United States, November 6, 2024. (credit : REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE)

Well, that’s true, but it’s not the cause of the defeat. The cause was the Democratic Party, which failed in all the tasks of this test: the diagnosis, the tactics, the strategy and, above all, the mentality with which it approached the challenge of Donald Trump.

The DEMOCRATS’ first mistake was failing to address President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. He was their leader. It was their duty to draw conclusions before the rest of us. If the party could not notice or admit the situation on its own, how could it credibly expose its opponent’s faults?

Then came the tactical error of crowning Harris without a contest. When the same party needed to field a candidate in place of the assassinated Kennedy, it held a primary election in which Alabama Governor George Wallace challenged Johnson.

Yes, there was more time back then, a whole year, but the lack of time was the party’s fault. This should have persuaded Biden to declare his incapacity earlier and then hold normal primaries.

Alas, just as there was no party to remind Biden of his promise to be a one-term president, there was no party to stop him from choosing his next leader. If Democrats had held a primary election, voters might have learned in time what they learned too late: that Harris couldn’t beat Trump.

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Above this tactical error of judgment was the strategic misunderstanding of the arena into which Harris was thrust. The party never thought about the message of its campaign. There was a long list of promises – no new taxes on the middle class, more taxes on the rich, expansion of the Affordable Health Care Act, for example – but there was no signature plan .

Trump, by contrast, has repeatedly made one major vow — to deport illegal immigrants en masse — and made it the center of his campaign. In the face of this negativity, Democrats were supposed to formulate an equally clear, but positive, overall wish: for example, a plan to renovate all urban ghettos, or to offer free college tuition in exchange for social services, or to build fast trains between major American cities. cities.

Democrats focus on Trump’s flaws

There was no such thinking. Instead, Democrats focused on Trump and his flaws. The result was a reactive campaign that failed to identify with an idea and was at the same time as negative as the rival campaign.

As serious as these failures were, they were mechanical rather than structural. The structural problem was not Biden’s situation or Trump’s challenge, but the infiltration of the Democratic Party by extremists who have no place in its ranks.

THE DEMOCRATIC Party has faced an increasingly close siege from radicals – some with a primarily economic agenda, like Bernie Sanders, and others, like Rashida Tlaibwith a Middle Eastern agenda.

Historically, party economics was the American version of European social democracy; the quests of Roosevelt and Johnson to graft capitalism and compassion. Sanders then moved on to drastic and unrealistic proposals, like a single-payer health care system, peppered with anti-Wall Street rhetoric that would have been sweet music to Karl Marx’s ears.

Democratic Party members tout their anti-Israel policies

Tlaib and the rest of the so-called “Squad” brandish slogans about the Middle East that are all inspired, not to mention dictated, by Israel’s worst enemies. This means actively fighting American support for Israel, while accepting the narrative that Israel was created as a colonial conspiracy, implying that Jews have no right to their own state in their ancestral land.

This is not what the Democratic Party historically stood for. On the contrary, Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Truman, spearheaded the establishment of Israel, first by making the United States the first country to recognize Israel and then by helping the young state to grow.

If the Democratic Party had been true to itself, it would have told its fellow anti-Zionist travelers that they had no place in the party. This never happened. Instead, when thousands of riflemen stormed southern Israel on October 7, shooting, burning, mutilating and raping hundreds of Israelis, nine Democratic lawmakers voted against a congressional resolution condemning Hamas. .

Then came the upheaval on American campuses. Many Americans did not know in detail what was happening on the battlefields of the Middle East or at their own universities, but millions understood that the chaos on their campuses was fueled by anti-American money deployed to drive a wedge between the American people and the Jewish people. State.

Harris’s attempts to please Palestinians and Israelis with contradictory statements pleased neither, and only convinced undecided voters that she lacked conviction, passion and character and that she would be easy prey for guys like the leaders of Russia, China and Iran.

The Democratic Party’s defeat has many causes, but its anti-Zionist wing clearly contributed to its electoral collapse. Faced with apologists for an Islamist attack on the Jewish state, undecided voters wondered which candidate was furthest from this anti-American scourge. Their answer was Trump.

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The writer, a member of the Hartman Institute, is the author of the best-selling Mitz’ad Ha’ivelet Hayehudi (The Jewish March of Madness, Yediot Sfarim, 2019), a revisionist history of the political leadership of the Jewish people.