This isn’t the election you think it is. While the most controversial and seemingly intractable political issues of the day are on the ballot, this Election Day doesn’t come down to abortion, immigration, or even the economy. It comes down to so much more: Good and evil themselves.
Politics aside, Election 2024 reflects a turning point—a once-in-a-generation decision between the two most important choices: What’s right and what’s wrong. It is a vote on the future of civilization and whether we can talk and work through our differences, no matter how seemingly complex, or whether we have decided to live in the movies and accept that murder, mayhem, and our most awful impulses will be used to resolve conflicts.
This election is a vote on every awful thing we don’t (perhaps some do) want to see in the world. It’s a vote on whether tying young girls down and violently raping them is ever acceptable. It’s a vote on whether burning screaming children alive is defensible. As Israel continues to defend itself from radical Islamists who wish to obliterate Jews from the face of the earth, right and wrong could not be on display more vividly.
What Hamas did nearly a year ago to Israelis will become all too familiar around the world—and here at home—if we as a society cannot condemn evil with a single, unified voice. These inhumane acts are wrong, the people who commit them are bad, and those who cheer them on are even worse.
There is no excuse or justification, and that is the stark choice we face this year. There is good in this election, and there is evil. If we cannot speak with moral clarity, vile behavior will become permissible and ultimately common.
Evil must be confronted everywhere, at every level, and it matters what our leaders say. This starts with Kamala Harris, who is all too willing to appease Hamas and the radical protesters who side with that loathsome terrorist organization. Harris has no problem meeting with journalists who praise Hamas, a terrorist group that openly rapes and murders women and children. Joe Biden claiming pro-Hamas protestors “have a point” or supporting the Iran deal that funds such terrorist groups is evil—end of story. Terrorist groups that murder and maim don’t “have a point.
On the other side is Donald Trump, who was consistently an ally of Israel’s during his presidency and remains one today, so much so that the rape-apologist liberal media brand him as “too pro-Israel”—whatever that means. Trump is the answer in 2024 because he condemns Hamas without reservation. He knows good and he knows evil, and he gives the evil of Hamas no quarter.
In pursuit of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, even if it means negotiating with terrorists, Harris and Biden are clearly all too eager to do business with monsters who take our money to fund evil across the world, making violence against Jews palatable for the sake of votes in Dearborn, Michigan.
Do we want to live in a country where our “leaders” try to find the right number of dead Jews per Muslim vote?
The basis of a moral society is the difference between good and bad. In the 2024 election, Harris Democrats are bad, and a vote for Harris is a vote to make rape and murder allowable, excusable, and palatable. It is only good to oppose them with every breath. Those who waffle on the Israel-Hamas war or allow America to be flooded by millions of illegal immigrants or denounce our nation as “systemically racist” do not deserve the support of the American people. They deserve a drubbing on Election Day.
For the sake of all that is good, Trump must win in November. The forces of evil cannot continue to run American democracy into the ground on the basis of some radical woke ideology. It is time for the woke mind virus to be eradicated for good.
The throngs of gleeful, hateful protestors who destroy America’s cities and call for more rape, murder, and brutality must be condemned, not appeased as Harris has done.
This is a simple choice—good versus evil. Whose side are you on?
Dan Backer is a veteran campaign counsel, having served more than 100 candidates and political action committees, overseeing more than $150 million in political spending over the past decade. He practices law as a member of Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman LLC.