• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This would be great. She needs these voters and her current approach of calling the people asking for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people Trump supporters has and will continue to backfire. I think we could all agree that the Walz pickup seemed like a step in the right direction, but her rhetoric has signaled more of the same. There is some argument saying that this is triangulating around AIPAC, but she also needs to recognize that neither AIPAC or Israel want her to win this election, so you don’t gain an ally by capitulating to them or their rhetoric,

    I think if she did what you suggest, she would stoke their ire, but honestly, I don’t think they have the influence they’re claimed to. If Democrats had actually stood behind the incumbent squad during those primaries, they would have won. The problem was that D’s were all too eager to throw them under the bus. If they had, they would have shown AIPACs weakness in the ability for money to control outcomes, which itself is extremely valuable. Harris needs to be setting up for a wave election and that makes the influence of AIPAC relatively moot. I think she should do what you suggest.