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.

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    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?

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        If Taco Bell reintroduced the shredded chicken burrito, how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?

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      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