@dukepaaron @raf @littlemiao @peribotsarah @gavi @spiegelmama @tobie1 @Sibshops @fraying @jessamyn If the Harris campaign is relying on a third party to sort of acknowledge that the bigotry happened and then provide a tepid condemnation of that bigotry, that's still an attempt to play the plausible deniability game. Would anyone find this acceptable if the Trump campaign had sent out a surrogate to make a lukewarm statement like this?
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I mean, to be clear, the very first thing that Harris and Walz did was go to Pennsylvania and heap praise on Shapiro while he quoted Pirkei Avot.
I guess I’m saying that while it initially looked to have been (at a minimum) something the bigots could claim victory on, if not something they helped cause, literally everything that followed has been a very clear rebuttal.
No, I wouldn’t for Trump, but that’s because (1) Trump wouldn’t be there crediting the targeted Jew like they did, (2) Trump has a long history of antisemitism that Harris simply doesn’t have, (3) I struggle to imagine a surrogate who has held the GOP to account for Republican antisemitism the way that Goldman has with Democrats.
There really isn’t a reasonable analog between the two…
@imstilljeremy no. The very first thing they did was have Shapiro demonstrate his loyalty and enthusiasm for this ticket.
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@imstilljeremy dude. When was the last time the unsuccessful candidate announced the person who beat him in his own home territory? That’s just weird.
@dukepaaron @imstilljeremy @raf @littlemiao @peribotsarah @gavi @spiegelmama @tobie1 @Sibshops @fraying @jessamyn Including quoting probably the second most well-known thing by non-Jews from Pirkei Avot, the other being “If not now, when?”
The fact that she even sent a third party who is not part of her campaign out to send a tweet with a screenshotted letter complete with the “asajew” formula says everything we need to know about how serious Harris is about dealing with the antisemitism in the party she now leads. And spoiler alert: She’s not that serious. At all.