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archive.today • Opinion | Will Gaza Cost Biden Re-election? - The New York Times
In the final paragraph she finally says what she really thinks.
Given how catastrophic another Trump term would be — including in Israel, where the far right fantasizes about his return — I find people who threaten to withhold their votes from Biden maddening. But if Democrats want them to come around, listening to them will be more effective than lecturing them.
Like, if they could display even a modicum of flexibility or willingness to change to meet the needs of the situation I’d be willing to overlook a bit more than I do
It’s funny how the nominally less conservative party ends up having a more insular, more inflexible culture among the leadership at times. You’d think “adapt” was an oath to these people.
“Don’t make the election a referendum on 2020” seems like the most obvious angle humanly possible, but they’ve failed to so much as find a replacement for a candidate that was consciously something of a placeholder at the time.