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TNC: I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency. I think more about systems. Abe Lincoln did not come into office wanting to smash slavery. Events dictated that that was what happened in politics. And not the least was the politics of Black people pushing in that direction.

So when I say I don’t really have hope for a Harris presidency disrupting that colonial system, it is not like I have hope for some other Democratic president doing it. I think these things are deeply, deeply entrenched.

Should Kamala Harris win this year and in 2028 run again and there’d be no change in the US’s Israel policy at all, the calculus will be roughly something like this: “I will continue to fund and support Israel’s right to apartheid. I will continue to be the arms provider for that. And that is the price of maintaining a woman’s right to choose.” Or something roughly like that. That’s a depressing prospect because Black people have been in that role that Palestinians would be in or are in right now. The New Deal was passed on our back, right? In order for it to happen, we had to be cut out of it.

The Guardian

The solution might actually be to abandon the Democrats. If they continue to lose elections due to be wedding to Israel on these issues, they will be forced to adjust their stances.

The rise of Trump can actually be viewed as the Republican constituents forcing their party to the right. The lackluster performances under McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, and the show of great excitement over Trump in 2016 have transformed the Republicans into a far more populistic party and not just a collection of fiscally-minded neoconservatives.

It can be pointed out that the Democrats were close to this themselves when there was a desire to nominate Bernie in 2016, but they were ultimately defeated by their own party...

Palestine is certainly not the only issue for the Democrats, but the populist left within the Democrat camp could use the issue to force the DNC to become more authentically left and to no longer be satisfied with a variety of culture war topics keeping them on the 'Democrat plantation,' you could say.