The Case for Kamala Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Almost half the electorate supported Trump in 2016, and supported him again in 2020.
50% : Trump is the sphinx who stands in the way of America entering a more hopeful future.
43% : Of all Trump's insults, cruelties, abuses of power, corrupt dealings, and crimes, the event that proved the essential rightness of the endorsements of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden took place on January 6, 2021, when Trump became the first American president to try to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
43% : For the millions of alienated and politically homeless voters who despise what the country has become and believe it can do better, sending Trump into retirement is the necessary first step.
41% : This year, Trump is even more vicious and erratic than in the past, and the ideas of his closest advisers are more extreme.
38% : Trump has made clear that he would use a second term to consolidate unprecedented power in his own hands, punishing adversaries and pursuing a far-right agenda that most Americans don't want.
29% : If you're a progressive who thinks the Democratic Party is a tool of corporate America, talk to someone who still can't forgive themselves for voting for Ralph Nader in 2000 -- then ask yourself which candidate, Harris or Trump, would give you any leverage to push for policies you care about.
27% : Opinions about Trump aren't just hardened -- they're dried out and exhausted.
26% : From the January/February 2024 issue: If Trump winsAbout the candidate we are endorsing: The Atlantic is a heterodox place, staffed by freethinkers, and for some of us, Kamala Harris's policy views are too centrist, while for others they're too liberal.
24% : But to the voters who don't much care for either candidate, and who will decide the country's fate, it is not enough to list Harris's strengths or write a bill of obvious particulars against Trump.
7% : Trump isn't solely responsible for this age of poisonous rhetoric, hateful name-calling, conspiracies and lies, divided families and communities, cowardly leaders and deluded followers -- but as long as Trump still sits atop the Republican Party, it will not end.

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