Biden, a supposed foreign policy pragmatist, doesn’t seem bothered that the US is one of the few states that continues to wholeheartedly sustain Israel’s war on Gaza. In fact, Biden has staked his political future on his support for Netanyahu and Israel – and Biden is losing. In this year’s presidential election, where he will most likely face Donald Trump once again, Biden has already lost support among young progressives, Black and Arab American voters, who are all rightfully angry at his refusal to restrain Israel.

Biden allies are raising the alarm that he could lose Michigan, a swing state with substantial Black, Arab and Muslim American voting blocs, because of his Middle East policies. Congressman Ro Khanna, a Biden supporter and progressive Democrat from California who has tried to mediate between Biden’s campaign and Michigan Democrats, warned his team this week: “We cannot win Michigan with status quo policy.”

The Biden administration has consistently underplayed the leverage it has over Israel and Netanyahu. “I think that sometimes people pretend that the United States of America has a magic wand that it can wave to make any situation in the world roll out in exactly the way that we would want it to and that is never the case,” Matthew Miller, the state department spokesperson, said at a press conference on 12 February.

Miller’s flippant comment raises an important question: if Biden can’t use billions of dollars in military aid – and the ability to literally cut off Israel’s supply of bombs – to force Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, what could Biden do with a magic wand?

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    Only then will we start turning against Trump. If the Democrats can’t even compromise on not committing Genocide then we will not compromise with them.

    If Trump wins and sets up theofascism, how do you propose to do that? Gonna build a secret resistance? Take down the empire? You sound like every ideologue I’ve ever met.

    Future generations will ask me what I did during the most preventable Genocide in world history I will say I was not being a whiny bitch that tried to ignore it and put so much pressure on the Democrats that they stopped it.

    Yeah, Dems will stop it by virtue of losing, and Republicans will just take up the reigns. And you know who they won’t listen to? A bunch of self-important Leftist ideologues. In fact, they’ll do it harder just because it’s what you want. But you’ll be able to lord it over the rest of us that you’re morally superior!

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      What Theofascism, the Zionist one Biden is currently trying to realize?

      It’s like you’re calling the people who opposed Hitler “leftist idealogues”

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        What Theofascism, the Zionist one Biden is currently trying to realize?

        Ah yes. Remember when Biden said, “I’m going to be Dictator on day one?” And remember the time he spoke at CPAC or TPUSA? Remember when his pastor prayed for God to “strike and strike and strike and strike…?” Remember when Biden paraphrased Hitler multiple times in speeches? Oh wait. That was Trump.

        You’re an ideologue, because you’re all talk. Your “plan” is to dig in your heels up to and including making Biden lose, and then you think you’ll take on Trump and Republicans? How? Gonna start a civil war? Be the ragtag heroes who beat the bad guys, because your conviction is stronger?

        That’s not a realistic plan. They’ll do things specifically because it’s the opposite of what you want, and since you’re not in their group, they won’t be inclined to listen to you.