We were a Super Tuesday away from the 'Squad' standing with Hamas
by Tiana Lowe Doescher, Commentary Writer
November 03, 2023 11:40 AMBy most available metrics, President Joe Biden has been an objectively poor president. The octogenarian triggered the worst inflationary crisis in 40 years, with trillions of extra spending on top of the tinderbox of the post-COVID economy. And after the Biden administration ripped up the Trump-era diplomatic deals that brought arrests for illegal border crossings to a 40-year low, they have hit the highest point on record.
From Sudan to Ukraine, foreign policy conflagrations across the globe, and Americans have rewarded Biden with consistently sub-40% approval ratings since his first foreign fracas in the abysmal withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And yet, it could be worse.
Very, very few things would have had to go differently for the world to enjoy a functionally pro-Hamas administration in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Had Democratic kingmaker Rep. James Clyburn (R-SC) not crucially endorsed Biden after his brutal losses in the early 2020 primary states, Secretary of State Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be calling for a ceasefire, tantamount to national suicide by Israel, instead of Antony Blinken boldly blasting Hamas for its human rights atrocities. Had the party's moderates not bowed out before 2020's Super Tuesday at the beckoning of former President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Rashida Tlaib would be pushing our sole democratic ally in the Middle East to voicemail instead of sending over American weapons carriers to support Israel.
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