The start of the NYT #endorsement article is pretty good though:

“It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as #president of the #UnitedStates than Donald #Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the #nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally #unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he MOST lacks.

#HarrisWalz2024

“Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of #POTUS: his many #criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in #policy & his increasingly bizarre [#weird] cast of associates.

“This unequivocal, dispiriting truth— #Trump is not fit to be president—should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country & the #stability of our #democracy to deny him re-election.”

#HarrisWalz2024

#GiftArticle

#KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024

#TrumpIsUnfit

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok4.bnSg.NiLCkM_lHhk8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

…”we urge Americans to contrast #KamalaHarris’s record w/her opponent’s.

“#Harris is more than a necessary alternative. There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies & borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator & a state attorney general.

“Over the past 10 weeks, Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate & division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.”

#HarrisWalz2024

“While #character is enormously important—in this election, pre-eminently so—policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects & their #children’s in an unstable & unforgiving world. For them, #KamalaHarris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a #home, to support #SmallBusinesses & to help workers.

#OpportunityEconomy #HarrisWalz2024

“#Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the #wealthy, & more #tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the #poor & #MiddleClass.

“Beyond the #economy, #KamalaHarris promises to continue working to expand access to #HealthCare & reduce its cost. She has a long record of fighting to protect #WomensHealth & #ReproductiveFreedom.

#ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“#KamalaHarris recognizes the need for global solutions to the global problem of #ClimateChange & would continue President #Biden’s major investments in the industries & #technologies necessary to achieve that goal. Trump rejects the accepted #science, & his contempt for low-#carbon #energy solutions is matched only by his trollish fealty to #FossilFuels.

#ClimateSolutions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience #democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“As for #immigration, a huge & largely unsolved issue, #Trump continues to #demonize & #dehumanize #immigrants, while #KamalaHarris at least offers #hope for a compromise, long denied by #Congress, to #secure the #borders & return the nation to a sane immigration system.”

#HumanRights #democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“…Harris is not wrong… on the clear dangers of returning Trump to office. He has promised to be a different kind of president this time, one who is #unrestrained by checks on #power built into the American political system. His pledge to be ‘a dictator’ on ‘Day 1’ …[was absolutely not] a joke — [as exhibited by] …his undisguised fondness for dictatorships & the strongmen who run them….

#democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“He has apparently made a willingness to support his #lies a litmus test for those in his orbit, starting w/ #JDVance….

“His disdain for the rule of #law goes beyond his efforts to obtain #power; it is also central to how he plans to use it. #Trump & his supporters have described a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most #extreme of his promises & #threats.

#democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“He vows, for instance, to turn the federal bureaucracy & even the #DOJ into #weapons of his will to hurt his political enemies. In at least 10 instances during his presidency, he did exactly that, pressuring federal agencies & prosecutors to punish people he felt had wronged him, w/little or no #legal basis for prosecution.

#democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“Some of the people #Trump appointed in his last term saved America from his most #dangerous impulses. They refused to break laws on his behalf & spoke up when he put his own interests above his country’s. As a result, the former president intends, if re-elected, to surround himself w/people who are unwilling to defy his demands. Today’s version of Trump—the twice-impeached version that faces a barrage of #criminal charges—may prove to be the restrained version.

#democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

“Unless American voters stand up to him, #Trump will have the #power to do profound & lasting #harm to our #democracy.

“That is not simply an opinion of Trump’s #character by his critics; it is a judgment of his presidency from those who know it best — the very people he appointed to serve in the most important positions of his White House. It is telling that among those who fear a second Trump presidency are people who worked for him & saw him at close range.

#law #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

“#MikePence, #Trump’s vice president, has repudiated him. No other vice president in modern history has done this. ‘I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the #Constitution should never be #president of the #UnitedStates,’ Pence has said. ‘And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.’

#law #democracy #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

“#Trump’s #attorney general has raised similar concerns about his fundamental unfitness. And his chief of staff. And his #defense secretary. And his #NationalSecurity advisers. And his #education secretary. And on & on — a record of denunciation w/o precedent in the nation’s long history.

#law #democracy #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

“…his operational #incompetence, his mercurial temperament & his outright #recklessness often led to bad outcomes. Trump’s #tariffs cost Americans billions of dollars. His attacks on #China have ratcheted up military tensions w/America’s strongest rival & a #nuclear superpower. His handling of the #Covid crisis contributed to historic declines in confidence in #PublicHealth, & to the loss of many lives.

#law #democracy #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

“#Trump’s overreach on #immigration policies, such as his EO on #FamilySeparation, was widely denounced as #inhumane & often ineffective.
“And those were his wins. His #tax plan added $2T to the #NationalDebt; his promised extension of them would add $5.8T over the next decade. His withdrawal from the #Iran #nuclear deal #destabilized the #MiddleEast. His support for #antidemocratic #strongmen like #Putin emboldened #HumanRights abusers all over the world.

#law #democracy #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

“He instigated the longest #GovernmentShutdown ever. His sympathetic comments toward the #ProudBoys expanded the #influence of #domestic #RightWing #extremist groups.

“In the years since he left office, #Trump was #convicted on #felony charges of falsifying business records, was found #liable in #civil court for #SexualAbuse & faces 2, possibly 3, other #criminal cases.

#law #democracy #Vote #HarrisWalz2024