The interns at The Nation magazine are in open revolt against the editorial board after they endorsed Kamala Harris for president. They claim that just the fact that the Harris-Biden administration does not share their vision of destroying Israel disqualifies Harris from consideration for an endorsement. Even though Harris hates Israel as much as they do, Harris is keeping quiet in order not to rile voters who support Israel, but I am sure if she is elected, the real Nazi will reveal herself.
Even though the interns have shown their displeasure with the endorsement of Harris, the editorial board refuses to walk it back because they know Harris is just hiding her inner totalitarian self to get into office, where she can finish the destruction of our country. She may have flip-flopped quickly to more moderate views, but if she is elected, she will flip back quicker than Bill Clinton chasing an intern.
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. It was founded on July 6, 1865, making it one of the longest-running publications in American history.
Here is their endorsement of Harris:
We also endorse Harris in her own right, as an experienced and capable leader with a vision for America’s future that—while not as progressive as we might prefer, particularly when it comes to foreign policy—represents a clear advance on the Democratic presidential nominees of the past half-century.
In her selection of a progressive governor, Minnesota’s Tim Walz, Harris also demonstrates an awareness of the need not merely to build on the many successes of the Biden-Harris administration but to go farther in the pursuit of economic, social, and racial justice—and the preservation of our planet.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELFact-checking that endorsement would be a full-time job.
Here is the response from the interns:
The Nation reported:
We, The Nation’s current interns, find this endorsement unearned and disappointing. We have a different interpretation of the magazine’s abolitionist legacy, one that says a publication committed to justice must refrain from endorsing a person signing off on genocide.
We do not support Donald Trump, but to champion Harris at this moment is to ignore the atrocities that are being carried out with weapons supplied by the Biden-Harris administration.
The Nation’s endorsement notes that on foreign policy the “positive case [for Harris] is harder to make,” adding that “she has failed so far to offer anything more substantive to the millions of Americans…desperate for an end to America’s unconditional support for Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.” Yet it goes on to endorse her anyway—implying that domestic concerns are somehow more important. We disagree. On the grounds of Gaza alone, Harris should not have received The Nation’s endorsement.
In the 12 weeks since she effectively became the Democratic nominee, Harris has failed to differentiate her policies from Joe Biden’s blank-check support for genocide. Instead, she repeats the same bland pronouncements about the need for a ceasefire and uses the same passive-voice support for the idea of Palestinian “freedom and self-determination.”
Again and again, she has been asked by Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim voters, along with a broad coalition of Democrats of conscience, to offer an alternative, and again and again she has refused. She would not even allow a pre-vetted Palestinian supporter of hers to speak at theDemocratic National Convention.
We also struggle with the idea that Harris’s domestic agenda can offset the suffering her policies will inflict abroad. As we map even her sunniest domestic proposals against the contours of her foreign-policy program, we remember James Baldwin, a Nation Editorial Board member, who said, “Every bombed village is my hometown.”
This repudiation of Harris follows the non-endorsements of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
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