Columnist warns ‘revenge’ voters stand to lose more than they think

Americans considering using their votes to punish Kamala Harris over her support of Israel should not forget “what they stand to lose” in the long term if Donald Trump were to take over foreign policy, a staff writer for The Atlantic warned Tuesday.

“Protest matters,” Gal Beckerman wrote in an editorial. “But we should not take for granted that we will always be able to protest.”

He added that the former president hasn’t concealed his views of dissenters, suggesting protesters should be thrown in jail for example.

And while “an emotional reaction to mass death” is understandable, Beckerman argued that a more fundamental issue is at stake. He urged anybody thinking of “revenge voting” – that is choosing not to vote, voting for a third-party candidate, or voting for Trump – “would also be punishing themselves.”

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“Protesters angry over Kamala Harris’s support for Israel should not forget what they stand to lose,” he wrote, adding that factions in the Democratic Party exist that would put pressure on Harris over the issue.

Beckerman continued to build his case in his editorial by questioning: “Who would put pressure on Trump to care about Palestine? Tom Cotton? Marco Rubio: Stephen Miller?”

He concluded that “those who care about the Palestinian future need to live to fight another day on this issue, and to do so they need to exist in a country where it is possible to fight at all.”