Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“Democrats are hitting every pressure point in their post-election analysis — every decision Harris should have made but didn’t, every policy choice she should have clarified before Republicans could define her. I’ve been struck by how little they’ve cited Gaza, and the demand that Harris break with her administration to end arms shipments to Israel. The anti-war left wanted a change in policy; failing that, it wanted Democrats to look over the 2024 wreckage and realize that it could have been prevented had they forced an end to the war. That is not the lesson Democrats took away, and Trump’s first foreign policy hires — Marco Rubio at State, Mike Huckabee for ambassador to Israel — emboldened angry liberals who wanted to tell protest voters that Trump had duped them.” (11/20/24)