It was President Joe Biden’s first big campaign rally of the year, a chance to spotlight the issue of protecting abortion rights. Instead, at least a dozen times during Biden’s 22-minute speech, demonstrators scattered throughout the audience rose to shout out demands for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Demonstrators disrupted Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina earlier this month as the president spoke out against racism, and they turned up at a United Auto Workers gathering this past week in Washington where Biden accepted the powerful union’s endorsement, and at a political event in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday.
“For most people, you get very few chances in this life to confront the president of the United States,” said Niki Thomas, a 29-year-old UAW member who yelled for a cease-fire and was dragged from the room during Biden’s speech to the union. “There was no way that we weren’t going to take that opportunity to speak up for for ourselves, for our members, to get a chance to let the president know how we feel.”
During a visit to Tel Aviv, Biden warned the Israelis not to be “consumed by rage.” But Biden has also said he believes Israel has the right to defend itself and he has asked Congress for billions to help Israel in its war effort.
What does that have to do with US elections?
Centrists’ candidate is supporting genocide for them.
I’ll ignore the fact that the US has begun shifting policies in favor of Hamas making your point moot, and pick up where we left off.
The right wing candidate openly supports genocide in Ukraine (supporting Russia) and Western Europe (via withdrawal from NATO) without caveat.
So what does Gaza have to do with whether we need to prevent a Trump presidency?
Nothing. We need to prevent a Trump presidency. Democrats need to abandon their support for the genocide that the entire centrist wing of the party has always wanted if they want to prevent a second Trump administration.
Centrist Democrats would, to the very last one, prefer Trump to be dictator for life than abandon their support for genocide that marks their wing of the party’s single greatest accomplishment.