We saw last week that a substantial number of Arab and Muslim voters broke with the Democratic Party and voted for Donald Trump or Jill Stein over Kamala Harris. It hasn’t taken long for buyer’s remorse to set in.
The New York Times is reporting on reaction to Trump’s initial picks for foreign policy. If you’re a subscriber, you can see that story here; if not, you can see the archived version here.
But some key bits:
Samraa Luqman, an environmental justice activist in Dearborn, Mich., and a co-chair of the Abandon Harris campaign among Arab American voters, said she still believed “anything is better” than the Biden administration officials who “led us into a downward spiral in the last year or so.” But she conceded, “I’m not thrilled about the appointments of war hawks and neo-cons, and have been very vocal about my support for Ambassador Richard Grenell to become the next secretary of state.”
Surprise, surprise! As for Luqman, I’ll say flat out that anyone who claims to be an “environmental justice activist” and supports Donald Trump is either an idiot or a liar. Period.
That said, there were some who saw through the ruse prior to the election:
“Trump’s team lied to a community in anger and despair?” she asked ironically. “Isn’t that his whole thing?”
I’d say that Ms. Elabed got that exactly right. It’s a shame that so many others did not recognize the reality that she saw.
And for the college students who protested what was being done to the Gaza strip last year and who withheld their support from Harris in the past election, I’m sure that they’re delighted by the choice of Elise Stefanik as Trump’s pick for UN ambassador. Oh, wait:
Ms. Stefanik has led Republican attacks on university presidents over antisemitism on campuses where pro-Palestinian protests flourished after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel started the continuing wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Maybe those protesters should have supported Harris after all…
Once again, the truism about voting for the “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” is again being proven right. Unfortunately, an awful lot of people who didn’t vote for that party are also going to get their faces eaten.
Update: 11:43 CST 11/14/2024
I’ve been offline all day for a variety of reasons and just came back to see my diary with 522 recs at the top of the Trending List. I saw the title at the top of the list, and it took me a moment to realize, that “Holy crap. it’s the story that I wrote this morning!” I was venting my frustration, and I guess that I’m far from alone. Thank you!
