In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.
Hatred of distant, self-dealing elites, and dissatisfaction with inequality and the status quo. Used to be a “left” thing, now the right often channels it better. In Latin America and the U.S.
From the dimensions of Trump’s imminent victory it’s pretty clear it has nothing to do with where American voters stand on the Middle East and yet there’s no shortage of people on this site now saying (in identical takes) Harris lost because she wasn’t pro or anti-Israel enough
The destruction over the last couple of months south of Gaza City has been accelerating quickly. Vegetation is being wiped out, along with swathes of homes and structures. Randomly picked a spot near Salah al-Din here to show the trend:
Via Planet. Sept vs. Oct + pre-war