Purity politics gets the left nowhere
by kos

Remember Jill Stein?

In case you’ve forgotten—since her name only resurfaces on schedule every four years—she’s the perennial Russian-backed Green Party candidate who materializes right on cue to trash Democrats, ostensibly from the left, then vanishes back into whatever bunker sustains her until the next presidential cycle.

Her 2024 campaign manager was Jason Call. In February 2025, this supposed leftist wrote that while Donald Trump was bad, “electing [Kamala] Harris would’ve been worse.”

To Call, all of Trump’s evils—and the list is endless—were still preferable to the alleged “moral stain of re-electing genocide.” You can argue, quite easily, that Trump was objectively worse for Gaza given that Israeli warmongering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly preferred him.

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