Lifelong Democrat and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz has announced his departure from the Democratic Party, citing what he calls an "anti-Jewish convention” as his reason.
Another longtime Democrat is saying “adios” to her party and joining the Republican Party.
Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero announced this week that she no longer recognizes the Democratic Party and will be voting for former President Donald Trump in November.
And there's Elon Musk, Elton John, and a string of others who are fed up with the Leftist movement in America and are walking away from their affiliation with them.
Even some in the Leftist press are also fed up with the left.
Leftist news organization AXIOS has published a scathing article about Harris.
Is this merely politics, or is there more than just politics involved in these departures from Barack Obama's party?
Be informed, not misled.
Dershowitz's vow
During an interview with radio host Zev Brenner on "Talkline with Zev Brenner,” Dershowitz said that several "anti-Jewish" lawmakers at the Democratic National Convention were his final straw with the party.
“It was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention I've experienced," he said. "I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted.”
Democrat Reps. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Elizabeth Warren (MA), and Bernie Sanders (VT) used their DNC speech to protest Israel. They have all been accused of antisemitism at one point or another.
Dershowitz called AOC “a miserable, anti-zionist bigot” and Warren “one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.”
He suggested that his departure from the party had been a long time coming and that his displeasure with his former fellow Democrats had developed gradually over the years. However, he said this wasn’t the only reason he now considers himself an Independent.
Dershowitz pointed to Vice President Kamala Harris’ notable absence and failure to “comply with her constitutional obligation” after skipping a joint Congress session during an address with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In July, Dershowitz vowed not to donate or vote for any politician who boycotted Netanyahu at the Congress session.
When asked who he would vote for in this presidential election, Dershowitz said he would not reveal that until after November 1. He said he wants to see how each candidate handles Iran.
“I want to encourage the current administration to support Israel,” he said. Dershowitz also accused the Harris campaign of not choosing Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as Harris’ running mate simply because he is Jewish.
Former Senate Leader no longer recognizes her Democrat Party---she's out.
Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero announced this week that she no longer recognizes the Democrat Party and will be voting for former President Donald Trump in November.
“I’ve had enough,” Romero said, who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for Jesse Jackson and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).
“I am now another near-lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people…who are leaving the Democratic Party,” she said, adding that the left is not the party she once championed. “ I cannot continue. I changed my voting registration today as the sun was rising to Republican, which has, under Donald Trump, become the champion of working people, the big tent. And indeed, I will vote for Donald Trump this fall.”
Romero took several jabs at the Democratic Party, accusing them of taking a “giant leap” toward authoritarianism and censorship. She pointed to former President Ronald Reagan, who once warned that the United States would eventually fall victim to fascism and it would be concealed under liberalism.
“Gloria urged her now former Party to ‘wake up’ and start standing up for everyday families again."
Colleagues say, "Her leadership and experience have always been about serving the people, not partisan politics.
Romero also acknowledged that despite being pro-choice, she cannot morally be a part of a party that advocates for abortion to full term. She also has taken a stand against the left’s radical gender and LGBTQ ideology.
“It is terrifying to see how language has been modified so that, as a feminist and a former professor. I would be condemned for saying that I can define a woman and distinguish between biological sex and gender identity,” she added. “I am a mother and refuse to call myself a ‘birthing person.’"
AXIOS, a Left-leaning news organization, has turned on Harris.
Even AXIOS is beginning to question what she really stands for. And who she really is.
With less than 60 days left in the race, and at the very moment she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago, Vice President Harris isn't getting subjected to the media scrutiny typical for a presidential nominee.
Why it matters: Harris is copying President Biden's self-protection media strategy — duck tough interviews and limit improvisational moments.
Her circumstances are different, for sure. She entered the race just seven weeks ago, did dozens of interviews this year before Biden's exit, and plans to have more interactions with reporters.
But with her debate with former President Trump coming up tomorrow, Harris has big questions to answer in two areas that go to the heart of running America:
Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic?
How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist, on health care, immigration, and energy? Why should voters believe her new views are the ones she'd stick with inside the White House?
The backstory: Biden advisers often were frustrated with Harris' performance as vice president. Their concerns fall into three buckets:
- They found her public performances uneven and often not reassuring. This improved over time. But even recently, several on Biden's team worried she'd struggle under the glare of national pressure.
- They found her risk-averse to the point of paralysis. The issue she embraced most — abortion rights — is one with the least risk, as polls show Democrats with a huge advantage on the issue.
- They worried about the high turnover rate among her staff. Of the 47 Harris staffers publicly disclosed to the Senate in 2021, only five still worked for her as of this spring. (This tally is incomplete because roughly half the staff isn't listed on the Senate disclosures.)
Takeaway
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this - this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.