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More than 100 ex-Republican officials call Trump ‘unfit to serve’ and endorse Harris (www.theguardian.com)
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More than 100 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a joint letter, calling Donald Trump “unfit to serve” another term in the White House.

Former officials from the presidential administrations of Republicans Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, George W Bush and Donald Trump, as well as Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama voiced their support for Harris, the Democratic nominee for president in this November’s election. They were joined by some former GOP members of Congress.

The letter said: “We believe that the president of the United States must be a principled, serious, and steady leader.”

It went on: “We expect to disagree with Kamala Harris on many domestic and foreign policy issues, but we believe that she possesses the essential qualities to serve as president and Donald Trump does not. We therefore support her election to be president.”

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh how very nice of them. Just really warms my heart. I wonder why currently serving GOP’ers aren’t following suit?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because then they'd get death threats and lose their jobs. Their jobs are more important than the country, apparently

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair most US politicians don't have the balls to sacrifice their jobs for what they feel is right. Which is exactly the problem.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Imagine an American Cincinnatus.

James K. Polk? Other than that...

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

There is a mayor that came out against Trump early in the election, I think even before Biden dropped out.

I am not aware of any Republican who are running for an elected office who have come out against Trump.

[–] antmzo220@lemmy.ml -5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Because the Dem party is the Republican party of yesterday, not of today.

In 2038+ when they are the ex Republicans and Democrats have "compromised" their way to the current Republican parties position, they'll be there.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a popular talking point, but not at all the case. If you compare the Democratic Party platform and its membership to any time in the last 50 years, you're going to find today's party is significantly more progressive.

The "Republican Party of yesterday" was the fucking Moral Majority. The Democratic Party is absolutely nothing like the "Republican Party of yesterday."

[–] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Tell that to the immigrants the Dems keep fearmongering about.

Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe in tough, smart solutions to secure the border, keep communities safe, and reform our broken immigration system. As Attorney General of California, Vice President Harris went after international drug gangs, human traffickers and cartels that smuggled guns, drugs, and human beings across the U.S.-Mexico border. As Vice President, she supported the bipartisan border security bill, the strongest reform in decades. The legislation would have deployed more detection technology to intercept fentanyl and other drugs and added 1,500 border security agents to protect our border. After Donald Trump killed the border deal for his political gain, she and President Biden took action on their own — and now border crossings are at the lowest level in 4 years, their administration is seizing record amounts of fentanyl, and secured funding for the most significant increase in border agents in ten years. As President, she will bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law. At the same time, she knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.

How is this not complete "they're bringing drugs over our border, some I assume are very fine people" rhetoric? But it's worse, because now this is the position of the "leftist" party.

When the "leftist" party is right wing on immigration, the right has to seperate themselves somehow, so now the ratchet clicked and Trump's calling for pogroms.

The "Republican Party of yesterday" was the fucking Moral Majority. The Democratic Party is absolutely nothing like the "Republican Party of yesterday."

The Republican party of yesterday was the Republicans of yesterday who are now endorsing the Democrats, because the Democrats best represent their ideology, otherwise they would be endorsing someone else.

Argue it all you want, they aren't secret leftist heroes.