Give it a break. Shapiro actively pressured the board of trustees at the University of Pennsylvania to call in the Philly cops to bust up and arrest the totally peaceful and non-disruptive Pro-palestine encampment on that Ivy League school's campus, which Shapiro labeled as "anti-semitic." Shapiro in doing that, and in also pressing successfully for the U of P president's ouster for allegedly not being sufficiently critical of "anti-semitism" on her campus, adopted the McCarthyite definition of anti-semitism as anything critical of Israel or its government. He deserved to be condemned for this. But you also ignore that it wasn't just Shapiro's anti-First Amendment stance on campus protest that killed his bid to be Harris's running mate, but also his support for school vouchers in PA, and for his help in covering up a case of accusations of sexual abust by a male staffer whom he permitted to buy off the alleged vicgtim with a large cash settlement that included a "non-disclosure" agreement. It was an unprincipled effort to deep-six the sexist behavior of a male aide towards a female subordinate. Harris could not allow that in a VP choice if she was going to make an issue of Trump's abuse of women.
Give it a break. Shapiro actively pressured the board of trustees at the University of Pennsylvania to call in the Philly cops to bust up and arrest the totally peaceful and non-disruptive Pro-palestine encampment on that Ivy League school's campus, which Shapiro labeled as "anti-semitic." Shapiro in doing that, and in also pressing successfully for the U of P president's ouster for allegedly not being sufficiently critical of "anti-semitism" on her campus, adopted the McCarthyite definition of anti-semitism as anything critical of Israel or its government. He deserved to be condemned for this. But you also ignore that it wasn't just Shapiro's anti-First Amendment stance on campus protest that killed his bid to be Harris's running mate, but also his support for school vouchers in PA, and for his help in covering up a case of accusations of sexual abust by a male staffer whom he permitted to buy off the alleged vicgtim with a large cash settlement that included a "non-disclosure" agreement. It was an unprincipled effort to deep-six the sexist behavior of a male aide towards a female subordinate. Harris could not allow that in a VP choice if she was going to make an issue of Trump's abuse of women.