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As long as I live I will never fully comprehend it. There should have been a line of honest and wise men a mile long standing behind Cheney on Thursday. But their cowardice, their venality, their shameful abdication of responsibility only served to make this moment in Ripon more powerful.

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

She isn't supporting any of Harris's policies. She is saying Trump is a traitor who must never have power. She is putting Country over Party.

How do people not understand that this is not an ordinary election of Dems vs GOP, it is a unique event in history of Democracy vs Fascism? You are playing right into Treason Trump's hands if you are treating this as an ordinary election.

Tim Miller is the absolutely last person on the planet to take any electoral advice or strategy from

And yet he said the exact 100% correct thing that people were thinking. This was the most important observation of the entire article.

There should have been a line of honest and wise men a mile long standing behind Cheney on Thursday.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Cheney not bringing a single voter with her. Harris has made misstep after misstep after the campaign and this continuously rightwards shift is going to lose the election for her.