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More than a dozen former Ronald Reagan staff members have joined dozens of other Republican figures endorsing the Democratic nominee and vice-president, Kamala Harris, saying their support was “less about supporting the Democratic party and more about our resounding support for democracy”.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (18 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (11 children)

They’re trying to reach conservatives that don’t support Trump.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're alienating people who hate Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Are they? The campaign is not speaking in support of the Reagan administration. Harris is supported by the former administration over a corrupt and narcissistic megalomaniac.

Personally, I don’t see this as anything other than validation that Trump is that bad.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you get endorsed by Hitler it reflects pretty badly on you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Putin endorsed Biden, and now Harris. Do you honestly think that he wants Democrats in charge during his invasion of Ukraine? Politics is a game.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Right, his endorsement doesn't help. That's my point? Liberals shouldn't be cheering because Reaganites endorsed Harris.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I read it as the neoliberal warhawks are enthusiastic about a more level-headed maintainer of Empire who has promised the most lethal military in the world and to always support Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saw someone theorizing that this helps Republicans down ballot. They give the Dems the presidency, but having more Republicans showing up to vote helps house/senate/whatever local elections swing Republican.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Surely if we go right one more time the mythical moderate republicans will reveal themselves and vote us. Just one more genocide, we got this

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even the bloodsucking ghouls prefer Harris, what a timeline

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is not the good timeline

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Hey, the US Empire is weakening every day. This is looking to be the good timeline eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Life doesnt last forever and you can get a vasectomy so your kids do not suffer this planet. It's what's best for them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (20 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In a letter...former Reagan aides and appointees...said they believed that, if alive today, Reagan would have supported Harris.

Reagan was a fascist ghoul. Cheney is a fascist ghoul.

If you think the trump admin was worse than the reagan or bush admins I'm sorry but you lost me. The dems clearly have no place for anti-war leftists theyd rather court bloodthirsty right wing monsters.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

People are imagining this like (if you'd forgive the analogy) Dragon Ball Z, where Vegeta is the big villain and we all need to rally around defeating him, but then an even bigger and more evil villain appears, Frieza, so now we team up with the still-evil Vegeta because he's more good than Frieza.

That's not what this is. This is Reaganites tipping their hand that they and the democrats are fundamentally on the same team, they are all part of the neoliberal establishment, and Trump, in his instability, is rocking the boat.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Blue conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Democrats are the new Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm amazed that people are offended when someone they dislike chooses to vote against Trump. I understand the concerns about a "uni party", the military industrial complex, Israel, etc., but can we please agree that Trump needs to stay out of the White House?

Think of it as a Venn diagram. It's OK to agree that Trump is bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

These Republicans are not known for caring about Democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We can see how this is bad right. This is just like proof that the Dems today are what RONALD REAGAN was? Like ... this is a thing we can all see, and by Harris not publicly donouncing these endorsements along with Cheney's there is a problem... like an obviousl problem? we all see this right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dems in 1990 were what Reagan was.

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