Jill Stein Campaign Manager Argues Electing Trump Was ‘Better Outcome’ Than Harris and ‘Re-Electing Genocide’
The campaign manager for 2024 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein argued that despite the faults of President Donald Trump, things would have been worse under Kamala Harris.
Early Tuesday morning, Jason Call posted a tweet calling Trump “godawful” but maintaining his presidency was still preferable to a potential Harris one — specifically citing her unwillingness to deviate from former President Joe Biden’s stance on the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
“Yes of course Trump is bad, there was no illusion that he would be terrible,” Call said. “Electing Harris would have been worse. We can fight Trump. Through mutual aid, through civil disobedience, through active resistance and organizing. We can overcome.”
“We would never overcome the moral stain of re-electing genocide. It would have undercut any moral authority,” he continued. “It would have metastasized. As godawful as Trump is, it was the better outcome. Now, let’s organize to bury fascism (again, but this time for real and that means ending capitalism).”
Although Stein and the Green Party established themselves as firmly against the two major political parties in the United States, Democrats have long held the belief that Stein’s presidential campaigns were orchestrated solely to siphon votes away from the Democratic candidate. Fueling those theories even further was Stein’s supposed double standard when it came to her criticisms of Israel and Russia’s respective governments.
