Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
Suppose, in 10 years, your choice for president is between a democrat who openly expresses interest in murdering six million Jewish people, and a Republican who openly expresses interest in murdering seven million Jewish people.
Will you still be an unwavering Democrat?
That’s what we have right now. BlueMAGA believes if they keep repeating the same mistakes over and over eventually it’s going to turn out the way they planned. And then with a chest full of arrogant hubris they will proclaim I told you so
If a communist killed between nine and thirty million of their own citizens would you still support communism?
If Taco Bell reintroduced the shredded chicken burrito, how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?
Theoretically infinite, but in practice three or four.
Somehow you managed to ask a question that takes less leaps of logics than your last one.