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This report is deeply flawed and embarrassing in its lack of data and depth. However, it needed to be released when the DNC said it would be. A simple majority of Americans trust Democrats less than Republicans, and the sudden reversal around its release widened the gulf.
Even now, what was released is incomplete and has annotations that indicate DNC denial of even its most plausible claims. This against the backdrop of Trump's Epstein files release, which was also delayed, incomplete, and accompanied with denials. The Dems made a fuss about that (characteristically toothless, but a fuss), but then did the same with one of their own reports months later. It's a ridiculous, unprovoked self-own that lowers the DNC's already guttered credibility at a critical moment.
All that said, the report itself is worthless because it refuses to acknowledge the elephants in the room:
The RNC and DNC are paid from the same pockets. The DNC refuses to even acknowledge this to itself, let alone propose any policy or reforms that endanger donations from corporations and the mega wealthy. This leads to over-focus on wedge issues, and the Republicans are experts in creating and exploiting divisions.
Refusal to address Israel in any meaningful way. I am not optimistic that either party will break from Israel. They are pouring billions into military contracts and buying lawmakers hand over fist. US military bases in Israel are seen as critical to its Middle East strategy. However, the failure to even establish a line in the sand that a Harris administration would not cross increased the feeling that there was no difference between the two parties on policy, just personality.
Israel got much more aggressive in the whole region after Trump took power so I'd disagree that there isn't a difference in the two parties.
Bullshit. Israel is more agressive because the whole world is coward. Fuck the usa, russia, china , canada and europe for doing nothibg and even buy and sell weapons from israel
I'm not saying that there isn't a difference, just that the Dems didn't adequately make a case that there would be a difference. I don't see Israel going total annihilation in Gaza without the moral and material support of the Trump administration. That was the Dems point to make, and they didn't make it.
Harris says will end Gaza war in final election appeal to Arab Americans.
Sounds like they did though.
She lied . She claimed that Hamas was the reason there is no cease fire but it was Israel who blocked it.
I said that they didn't adequately make the case, not that they never said anything. This is one campaign rally, in November. Before this, Harris's responses were much more typical of Dems of the time: Israel was attacked, Israel has the right to defend itself, but killing Palestinians bad.
She had a three month campaign.