Vice PresidentĀ Kamala Harrisā€™ campaign on Sunday is launching ā€œRepublicans for Harrisā€ as she looks to win over Republican voters put off byĀ Donald Trumpā€™s candidacy.

The program will be a ā€œcampaign within a campaign,ā€ according to Harrisā€™ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week, the campaign said.

The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement.

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    3 months ago

    Just give em the benefit of the doubt that they are really just conservatives, who may be misguided, but who are generally still operating in good faith, unlike the Trumpists simply looking to seize power and abuse it.

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      Just give em the benefit of the doubt that they are really just conservatives, who may be misguided, but who are generally still operating in good faith

      Thatā€™s always been a fiction. The word for people who believe in things like democracy and the rule of law has always been some variety of ā€œliberal.ā€

      Conservatism ā€“ yes, true conservatism ā€“ is an unbroken thread from monarchists, to Confederates, to NAZIs, to Trump.

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        Conservatism, minus the not-a-true-scotsman thing, is rooted in tradition. Traditions can vary from culture to culture, a person could even have liberal democracy as their tradition.

        Itā€™s really just a sort of tag you can apply to any other ideology that means ā€œvery rigid-mindedā€. You could have a conservative liberal, or a conservative communist if you wanted, they simply need to embrace those as traditions and refuse to alter their opinions no matter how much contradictory evidence is presented.

        In this sense it is the opposite of progressive, which is identified by seeking change, both in the world around us, but also within ourselves as we try to stay current with changing environments and growing bodies of knowledge. We change our minds very readily when proven wrong, thatā€™s what makes us distinct from conservatives.

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          You didnā€™t watch the source I cited at all, did you? Conservatism has a specific set of philosophers who founded it and we know what their goals were. It was not about being ā€œvery rigid-minded;ā€ it was about defending the monarchy (and once that proved to be a lost cause, hierarchy in general).

          Conservatives only want to ā€œconserveā€ the status-quo insofar as the status-quo happens to be hierarchical. If the status-quo were egalitarian instead, they would 100% be champing at the bit to make broad, sweeping changes to introduce hierarchy as hard and fast as possible.

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            Itā€™s called disagreeing with your source. Our world is a fluid thing, I donā€™t think a responsible historian or philosopher can try to define something by its origin without taking a broader context into account.