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.
But many politicians who hold a position you claim makes them unelectable won in 2024, including the president. How do you square this with your theory?
Like, its so tedious to have to be your tutor for a basic understanding of elections and electoralism. You really do have a responsibility to study these things yourself instead of expecting the world to feed decades of study and work into your mouth like a baby bird.
What gets a Republican elected has nothing whatsoever to do with what will get a Democrat elected. Voters do not exist along a one dimensional continuum centered on a normal distribution. Voters who would vote to get a Democrat elected are not voters who would vote to get a Republican elected. If you run a campaign, as a Democrat, focused on appealing to Republican voters: you will lose the election.
What percentage of Democratic congresspersons who won in 2024 share your position on Gaza/Israel?