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.
I agree that Kamala was a “bad candidate” in that she wasn’t very electable, despite being an intelligent, eloquent, respectable leader.
It seems like the main concepts that sank her are simply that she’s not a white male, and sadly Trump seems to have this unshakable perception that he’s good with money despite all evidence to the contrary.
That said, I think there’s a lot of self reflection to be done amongst those on the left who sabotaged their own candidate. They were protesting about Palestine outside Harris’ rallies for goodness sake. I don’t think this specific demographic is responsible for losing the election, but they are idiots that need to consider their approach to societal change.
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 that the half of Lemmy that was against Kamala resides in Moscow. That kind of attitude is a pretty good example of my observation.