In interviews with NBC News, prominent members of the "Abandon Harris" maintained they made the right decision to either not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris or cast their ballot for Donald Trump despite previously being in the Democrats' camp.As NBC's Jillian Frankel reported, members of the m...

Summary

Key leaders of the “Abandon Harris” movement, which encouraged voters to oppose Kamala Harris due to U.S. support for Israel during the Gaza war, are now expressing unease about Trump’s incoming administration.

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

However, concerns are growing over his Cabinet picks, such as Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard, which some see as troubling for Muslim communities.

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 days ago

    Like every single person who has ever claimed that downvotes proved their point, you are making an insupportable claim. There are at least two things I can point to in your comment that could provoke someone to downvote it, even if they agree with your other points.

    You had 4 years to make a change, but you guys would rather just blame people that wants actual improvements and still doing so after you lost the election despite getting the candidate that you supported.

    I think many commenters here would argue that at least some of the people who campaigned against Harris in the run-up to the election were not acting in good faith; certainly the comment you replied to implies this. It would therefore be inaccurate, in their view, to say that they’re blaming “people that wants actual improvements”.

    It’s really funny to watch.

    This kinda makes you sound like an asshole.

    For the record, I agree that she was a bad candidate, and that the Democrats would have won the election if they offered real change, instead of rallying round the status quo as they so often have in my lifetime.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 days ago

      Yes, some of the people arguing against Kamala was doing it in bad faith. Did I also see people on lemmy.world broadly brushing all criticisms against Kamala as being done in bad faith? Yes, yes I did.

      Did I see any effort on lemmy.world’s part to find out whether the people criticising Harris is doing so in good faith or not? I see very minimal effort, and many of them are only asking in bad faith with no apparent intention to accept any kind of explanation as for why people are not a Russian asset just because they don’t fall in line with the Democrats.

      For example, the reply to the main comment did claim, while jokingly, that the half of Lemmy that was against Kamala resides in Moscow, its that kind of attitude that is pretty pervasive in the discourse on the run up to the election.