I'd expect nothing less of The New Yorker, a magazine I've subscribed to for much of my life that is known for its great writing and (often lengthy) articles on important subjects, not to mention quality fiction and reviews of books, theatre, TV shows, and movies.
The New Yorker's endorsement of Kamala Harris for president in the October 7 issue was five pages long, much more extensive than the typical newspaper endorsement -- assuming your town still has a daily newspaper (mine does) which makes endorsements (mine doesn't, nor does it even have an opinion section anymore).
Download The New Yorker Endorses Kamala Harris for President | The New Yorker
If you already favor Harris for president, reading the endorsement will give you a better idea for why you've made such a wise decision. If you're undecided between Harris and Trump, hopefully the endorsement will tilt you toward Harris. But if you're a Trump supporter, you owe it to yourself to learn what makes Harris such a powerful candidate who is narrowly leading in the battleground states.
Here's some excerpts:
Trump’s campaign has centered on immigration. His first-term abominations included family separation, the Muslim ban, and the decimation of the refugee and asylum system. Now he and advisers like Stephen Miller want to carry out mass deportations reminiscent of the Eisenhower Administration’s “Operation Wetback,” promising the creation of vast internment camps for undocumented immigrants. Such efforts would require the participation of the Department of Defense and the National Guard. These goals are not only unrealistic; they’re undemocratic.
There are more than eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States; at least sixty per cent of them have lived here for more than a decade. Under Trump, federal agents would target anyone they could, without clear guidelines or priorities. This policy would tear apart families, unleash fear in immigrant communities, and lead to racial profiling and discrimination.
A second Trump Administration also augurs economic disaster. His promised tax cuts would hollow out the government’s finances, especially if he manages to enact the escalating measures that he has promised while campaigning, such as making Social Security benefits tax-free. Then, there’s his plan to impose tariffs of up to twenty per cent on imports, plus much higher duties on anything made in China. According to credible economic models, this would bring a resurgence of inflation, raising the cost of living for those least able to afford it.
...In every arena, there is little question that a Harris Presidency promises far greater sanity and far greater humanity. As recently as three months ago, the Washington cognoscenti cast aspersions on her political skills. These quickly evaporated as Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, the shrewd and appealing governor of Minnesota, have rapidly proved to be effective campaigners.
Their swift transformation of the Democratic Party’s prospects for November has been astonishing. Harris deserves enormous credit for stepping fearlessly into the role that fate has dealt her. In the face of a malign opponent, she has behaved with poise, conviction, and intelligence. Of course, her ability to carry out her policy ambitions would improve immeasurably with the election of Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. But, whatever the circumstances, her positions on the critical issues are rational, undergirded by a basic sense of decency, and often compelling.
Where Trump promises mass deportations, she has expressed support both for boosting border enforcement and for opening avenues that would lead to legal immigration. The refugee program, which is both a moral imperative and a pragmatic tool of U.S. foreign policy, has grown substantially during the Biden-Harris Administration. The government has also tempered interior enforcement, allowing the large undocumented population, particularly those with families and deep ties to local communities, to live without constant fear of arrest and deportation.
The Biden-Harris record on asylum at the border is mixed, partly because the policy solutions are far more complex. Harris has said that she would support a bipartisan Senate bill that drastically curtails asylum, and, in the current climate, support for that bill is politically expedient. But there is good reason to believe that, if elected, Harris could be pushed to combine increasing vigilance at the border with more policies that would provide relief to those in desperate need.
She has been clear that she would protect undocumented families and find ways to bring a sense of compassion to the immigration system. Congress, to be sure, has been a barrier to any meaningful efforts at immigration reform; conservative courts, together with Republican state attorneys general, would try to limit what Harris could do by executive order. But the alternative is unimaginably bad.
On the subject of economics, Harris’s proposals have sometimes lacked detail, but they thoughtfully address concerns of working-class and middle-class Americans, with a particular focus on the cost of housing. President Biden, for his part, has made a concerted effort to reëstablish the Democratic Party’s bond with blue-collar voters. He has been unusually pro-union and pro-manufacturing.
There’s a reason that, after the disastrous first debate, some of the most diehard Biden loyalists were on the Party’s left. The inflation that rose earlier in his term—and that his political adversaries have used to define his economic record—has now abated, while Biden can be credited with passing programs that directed federal spending toward badly needed infrastructure projects and green-energy projects. The U.S. is currently leading its peers in the rate of economic growth.
...Four years ago, in our endorsement of Joe Biden, we said that, while he was leading in the polls, we hoped he would displace Trump “by a margin that prevents prolonged dispute or the kind of civil unrest that Trump appears to relish.” We know what happened: the margins, in four decisive states, were extremely narrow, and Trump refused to concede. Instead, he levelled wild accusations and filed dozens of lawsuits.
When those failed, he called on his maga believers to march on the Capitol. This time around, the Trump campaign and various right-wing groups have already deployed deny-the-vote efforts around the country, particularly in swing states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. There is every likelihood that, if Trump loses, the drama could go on for weeks or months after Election Day. He has made no secret of the fact that he is willing to use every lever, deploy every dirty trick, political and rhetorical, to bring the country to the brink once more.
And so the choice is stark. The United States simply cannot endure another four years of Donald Trump. He is an agent of chaos, an enemy of liberal democracy, and a threat to America’s moral standing in the world. Kamala Harris—who has shown herself to be sensible, humane, and liberal-minded—is our choice for the Presidency.
At the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, a few weeks ago, the American people were able to see both the stakes of this election and the vast differences between the candidates. The right choice—the necessary choice—is beyond debate.
"In every arena, there is little question that a Harris Presidency promises far greater sanity and far greater humanity"
There is something exceptionally delusional and utterly disgusting for this bullshit state propaganda article to associate Kamala with humanity, even as she oversees multiple invasions and the genocide and slaughter of hundreds of babies, women and children EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A YEAR. Utterly horrifying and utterly disgusting, the very depths of human depravity imo. As well as highlighting the naivity, gullibility and susceptibility of citizenry to even cheer for genocide despite the demonstrably delusional belief one is a liberal opposed to racism, apartheid and the daily slaughter of infants.
If one has any interest in understanding how humans could sink to the darkest depths of turning a blind eye to the horrors of the WW2 holocaust, and even cheering for their great genocidal leaders, look no further than at America and it's citizens today, especially the democrats.
Posted by: manjit | October 05, 2024 at 06:05 AM
Having taken some nausea medication, I read through the rest of this propaganda piece.
It is incredible how completely ignorant, gullible and susceptible to brainwashing folks are. I think most of the rest of the world would agree, American citizens are probably the most obliviously ignorant of geopolitics people on earth.
If one removes from this fluff piece article all the empty sycophantic platitudes, it is essentially saying look how great Kamala is for inviting Muslim immigrants into our country whilst Trump wants to deport them.
Again, these deeply manipulative arguments are grounded in a fundamental ignorance of what CAUSES mass migration:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/refugees
Between 39 to 60 million people have been displaced since 9/11 alone from regions devastated by US imperialist wars.
RIGHT NOW US and Israel are dropping bombs, committing genocide and ethic cleansing, destroying infrastructure etc in multiple countries, at least 4. And Kamala has openly voiced her complete support for this barbarity.
There is something incredibly abhorrent about an article that attempts to portray a chief architect of war, destruction, death and mass migration as somehow more humane or decent than somebody who voices the concern of THE COMMON MAN of mass immigration into their already overburdened and under supported by their governments because they're too busy sending billions to kill children communities.
But people who have a modicum of intelligence, knowledge, connection to the events and communities concerned see right through this BS designed to manufacture consent in folks like Brian.
This is a woman who barred from her conference with no reason or excuse whatsoever 2 Muslim women wearing a hijab. Luckily it was caught on camera:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/1/31/two-women-wearing-hijabs-denied-entry-to-democratic-campaign-event
Could you even begin to imagine what the American neo-liberal media would have done with this clip if it occurred at a Trump rally? Wow, headline news for days. But, as always, the immense and intense hypocrisy, double standards and contempt for human intelligence that the western mainstream media embodies just swept this away, lest the cognitive dissonance between what so called liberal democrat supporters of Harris believe are their values and the actual horrific reality of their situation totally paralyse them.
All in all this is an utterly pathetic and low IQ article, more mindless Ra Ra cheerleading for their genocidal overlords.
Posted by: manjit | October 05, 2024 at 07:01 AM