{"id":279,"date":"2024-10-30T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:55:19","slug":"ny-times-editorial-harris-only-patriotic-choice-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"NY Times editorial: Harris &#8220;The Only Patriotic Choice for President&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ef87d6200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NY Times image\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ef87d6200d img-responsive\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ef87d6200d-250wi\" style=\"width: 156px;\" title=\"NY Times image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ef87d6200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a>This is the Times endorsement, and was published on September 30th. Only conclusion is that in the view of the NY Times editorialists, you&#39;re <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/unpatriotic\">unpatriotic<\/a> to vote for Trump. Which means about half the country is unpatriotic&#8230; This from the &quot;paper of record&quot;. The whole editorial is 27 mostly long paragraphs &#8211; hit the link for the whole thing. We report you decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/30\/opinion\/editorials\/kamala-harris-2024-endorsement.html\">&quot;&#8230;regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president&quot;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2020 this board made <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/16\/opinion\/donald-trump-worst-president.html\" title=\"\">the strongest case it could<\/a> against the re-election of Mr. Trump. Four years later, many Americans have put his excesses out of their minds. We urge them and those who may look back at that period with nostalgia or feel that their lives are not much better now than they were three years ago to recognize that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/18\/opinion\/trump-presidency-record.html\" title=\"\">his first term was a warning<\/a> and that a second Trump term would be much more damaging and divisive than the first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Kamala Harris is the only choice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-t91cuf epjyd6m1\">\n<div class=\"css-1l3nmlr epjyd6m0\">\n<p class=\"css-1tx0lhj e1jsehar1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><a class=\"last-byline css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/opinion\/editorialboard.html\" itemprop=\"name\">The Editorial Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tx0lhj e1jsehar1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding <a class=\"css-13m58p7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/opinion\/editorialboard.html?module=inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">values<\/a>. It is separate from the newsroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Times endorsement, and was published on September 30th. Only conclusion is that in the view of the NY Times editorialists, you&#39;re unpatriotic to vote for Trump. Which means about half the country is unpatriotic&#8230; This from the &quot;paper of record&quot;. The whole editorial is 27 mostly long paragraphs &#8211; hit the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}