New York and Washington. In the face of intense debates in forums, the streets, universities, in liberal and progressive groups, in the editorial boards, in the analysis centers about the implications of this election as we almost reach the culmination of this aberrant contest, everyone – from right to left – They agree on one thing: it doesn’t matter who wins.
On the one hand, for the entire range of opponents of the Republican candidate (including several Republicans from the Cheney family and Bush to the “Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger) Donald Trump’s neo-fascist project makes its agenda clear – it is explicit. Although some analysts argue that much of it is rhetoric without substance, the evidence shows otherwise.
Trump has proposed throughout his campaign, among other things, mass deportations of immigrants with the use of the National Guard and something like concentration camps to detain them, he will pursue his political opponents through his handling of the Department of Justice, He will deploy military forces against American citizens who are part of what he calls the “enemy within,” he will punish states with Democratic governments in the management of natural disasters (something he did when he was president), he will bomb Iran and use military force against the cartels in Mexico, will continue with the annulment of abortion rights and civil liberties and promote protectionist measures with serious consequences for the country’s trading partners.
In an editorial this week about these proposals and others, the New York Times warns: “believe him.”
On the other hand, the Democrats’ offer is more of the same as the last four years, but now with someone younger than President Joe Biden – who was forced to give up the candidacy under pressure from the leadership of his party. and from the polls – who proclaims himself as the leader of “a new generation” (even though he is 60 years old). Although almost all of Trump’s opponents applauded the change of rider in the middle of this election in the face of the increasing probability that Biden would be defeated by Trump, it has not been enough to change the electoral dynamics to the degree they desired.
It is debated whether in part this is due to the cautious and centrist message of the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, especially on some key issues for key sectors of the electorate, and in particular the key states that will determine the final result, where she has decided to pivot on the right: on the issue of border control and migratory flow, the issue of Israel’s unconditional support in the genocide in Gaza and on the environmental issue.
For a large Latino sector, and for young people, these issues are key, and the commitment not to address them in any other way could end up being a factor in a defeat. It will be seen, but there are many who affirm that they cannot vote for someone complicit in a genocide.
This Saturday, the only Palestinian-American federal representative, Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib, refused to endorse Harris for the handling of the war in Gaza.
At the same time, it never ceases to amaze the anti-Trump that, faced with a Republican candidate who is convicted of corporate fraud and hiding payments to silence a porn star, and who faces dozens of federal and state criminal charges for attempting to subvert the last election and for illicit handling of secret official documents among other things, three days before the elections, this race remains in a technical tie.
In fact, there is something curious about the fact that Trump has managed to project himself as “the insurgent” and his campaign not as just another Republican Party candidacy, but as the head of a great popular movement, something he projects in all his events. And the “insurgency” is against the status quo in Washington now represented by Harris and her boss Biden (although the president has remained almost invisible in the last three months), and with this he has managed to maintain spectacular popular support from a population, which According to polls, he does not trust the country’s main democratic institutions, including the political leadership, and a large part, such as industrial workers in key states and farmers, feel betrayed by the government and the Democrats who claim to represent them.
For some experts on right-wing nationalist movements, Trump increasingly fits the classic description of fascism.
Given this, the most effective argument against the Republican is not necessarily to promote a pro-Harris vote, but rather a massive anti-Trump vote. That is the message of a whole chorus of liberal and progressive political leaders and activists. Senator Bernie Sanders – still the most popular elected politician among young voters – and Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have held events supporting Harris in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, with Sanders spreading messages to progressive and young sectors that could define the outcome if they participate.
Underscoring that they also have differences with Harris on migration, complicity in the war against the Palestinians and on environmental issues, they affirm, as Sanders repeats at each event, that “Trump and his right-wing friends are worse.” Sanders insists that this cannot be reduced to a single issue, and emphasizes that in areas such as women’s rights, climate change and racism, “Trump would be a disaster for the country. Trump has to be defeated.”
This Saturday in Pennsylvania, Sanders – still the elected politician with the highest approval in the country – led an event in support of Harris, but whose message was not focused on her, but rather as an invitation “to the movement to expand the rights of workers and confront Trump’s plans to dismantle workers’ power in that country. It is time to build an economy that works for everyone.”
This type of message about the issues, not necessarily about the candidate, is also projected by leaders of the women’s rights movements, defense of civil liberties and immigrants, groups for the control of firearms, for the rights of the gay community, by experts in foreign relations and military affairs (it is worth remembering that former generals who worked with Trump, including the then chief of staff and the chief of staff, have denounced him as irresponsible and dangerous, and an authoritarian) as environmentalists, among others.
That message has been repeated, with greater credibility than politicians, by stars of culture and sports and social movements, some of whom have accompanied the Democratic candidate, others participating as part of the resistance against Trump, among them Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Stephen Curry, Stevie Wonder, Los Tigres del Norte, the president of the automotive union Shawn Fain, the leader of the flight attendants union Sara Nelson, teachers’ unions, among others – some of them progressive critics of the current government but in the face of Trump’s threat, it is necessary to vote for the opponent of this right-wing project.
Among the great mosaic of conscious, liberal and progressive voices, there are disagreements about almost everything except one: it does not matter – inside or outside the country – who wins in these elections.
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