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.
If you continue to think about elections as a binary when they aren’t, you’ll continue to lose them our our behalf.
Game theory only works if you represent the came correctly, and you aren’t doing so.
Elections in the US are always multipolar, and in-fact, all voters actually start at the position you like to pretend doesn’t exist: the couch.