By Walt Zlotow
Astoundingly, Kamala Harris received 6,265,300 less votes for president in 2024 than Joe Biden received in 2020. Polling revealed the biggest reason was Biden’s all out support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and Harris’ refusal to break with Biden on that support.
The entire Democratic establishment other than Bernie Sanders joined Biden and Harris in ignoring the Democratic base to support the genocide which continues to this day. This was a big, if not the biggest factor in Democrats losing the White House in 2024, allowing Trump to regain the presidency to continue his destruction of American democracy.
With Trump now on the ropes over his senseless war on Iran that is wrecking the US economy, one would surmise Democratic leaders would welcome Trump’s surrender to end the worst military defeat in US history to restore both peace and economic stability.
But no, Democratic leaders are aghast Trump has essentially surrendered in humiliation, giving Iran near complete victory over the world’s only superpower. Without saying so explicitly, Democrats strongly imply Trump should have continued the war to victory as preposterous and impossible as that is. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the agreement “the art of surrender” when he should have lauded it as the path to peace and return to economic sanity. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal upped Schmer by calling it “unconditional surrender.” Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper termed it “despicable” while former Clinton National Security Advisor Susun Rice blasted it as “jaw dropping horrific surrender.”
From this rhetoric one can conclude they’d be thrilled if Trump had continued the bombing till Iran was completely destroyed. Instead, Schumer, Blumenthal, Hickenlooper, Rice should have been praising Trump’s surrender as the wisest, bravest act of his second term after his disastrous attack on Iran sent the world’s economy into precipitous decline. By slamming it, they are making peace increasingly likely to fail, possibly resulting in renewed warfare as Trump may seek to avoid their charges of being the worst loser in US history.
Democratic leaders, like they did in in 2024, completely dismiss their voting base which oppose senseless war, whether it be enabling the Israeli genocide in Gaza or enabling Israel’s lust to destroy Iran using US airpower. Polling shows merely 13% of Democratic voters favor war with Iran. Yet, Democratic leaders, obsessed with both demonizing anything Trump does while promoting US exceptionalism worldwide, strongly imply US should fight Iran to all out victory.
Democrats apparently learned nothing from their devastating 2024 presidential defeat by ignoring their support of genocide as the major reason Democratic voters defected from Harris. A year and a half on they are still promoting US exceptionalism worldwide, doing nothing to end Israeli genocide in Gaza, seek peace with peaceful, non-nuclear Iran, end the grotesque oil embargo of Cuba, stop obliterating of little boats in the Caribbean and cease senseless bombings in Somalia and Nigeria.
If Democratic leaders do not jump off the War Train and hop on the Peace Train, they put their 2028 presidential candidate in danger of losing another 6,265,300 votes from Democrats, independents, possibly even some Republicans horrified by Democratic pro war policies. They risk puttomg a Trump MAGA replacement in the White House. Democratic Party leaders cannot be that self-destructive… or can they?
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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The Democrats leaders are certainly demonstrating they don’t have the will or capacity to unstitch American greed, hubris, exceptionalism and bent for global wreckage.