Voting for the corporate centrist is viable harm reduction in the short term, but in the long term it’s a harm multiplier. Trump winning 2020 absolutely would have been worse than Biden winning, but Biden’s win and subsequent failure to do anything whatsoever to prevent future harm made Trump’s 2024 win even worse. If Harris had won 2024, she would have continued to fail to hold republicans accountable for their treason, and the next republican would be even worse. The only way this method of harm reduction functions in the long term is if a republican is never elected again. Republicans will be elected again, and we need an opposing party that’s willing and able to oppose them, not delay them.
Voting for the corporate centrist is viable harm reduction in the short term, but in the long term it’s a harm multiplier. Trump winning 2020 absolutely would have been worse than Biden winning, but Biden’s win and subsequent failure to do anything whatsoever to prevent future harm made Trump’s 2024 win even worse. If Harris had won 2024, she would have continued to fail to hold republicans accountable for their treason, and the next republican would be even worse. The only way this method of harm reduction functions in the long term is if a republican is never elected again. Republicans will be elected again, and we need an opposing party that’s willing and able to oppose them, not delay them.