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.
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?