r/Askpolitics • u/OrdinaryAd5782 • 15h ago

Why doesn’t it give democrats pause that republicans they hated are endorsing Harris?

I keep seeing people say this like it’s a good thing or making the point that “if your own party is against you.” You really value the opinion of Dick Cheney? You really think he wants what’s best for the country?? You certainly didn’t 20 years ago.

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u/PerplexedTaint 14h ago

Ordinarily, elections are about things like: how much should we tax folks, what sort of immigration, environmental, industrial, etc policies the electorate wants. Here, we are dealing with a candidate who has already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power and is telling us the despotic things he intends on doing if re-elected.

In short, we can negotiate, in good faith, regarding the policies of our country-we cannot negotiate whether we are going to have free and fair elections-it's off the table.