Inhumanity is policy on Day 1
Donald Trump and his MAGA followers find community in “rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them,” Adam Serwer wrote in 2018. If Republicans reoccupy the White House in 2025, they plan to make a formal project of it.
The Biden-Harris campaign wants to be sure you don’t miss that.
We are all horrified by Israeli policy in Gaza, and by President Joe Biden’s tardiness in issuing a “tense” ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “protect Palestinian civilians and foreign aid workers” (Reuters):
“There was always going to be a point at which the Biden administration felt that the domestic and international cost of supporting Israel’s campaign in Gaza outweighed the benefit of what Israel was able to achieve on the ground,” said Mike Singh, a former National Security Council official on the Middle East.
“What is remarkable is not that this is happening but that it took so long.”
“Israel is better than the way this war is being waged. It is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians. It is better than killing aid workers who had coordinated their movements with the Israel Defense Forces,” wrote chef Jose Andres after Israelis killed seven of his World Central Kitchen relief team in Gaza.
“Biden’s frustration with how the war is being conducted, and with Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, has reached an apex,” Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, tells Reuters.
For all the good he’s done domestically, Biden has hurt himself by not calling out the cruelty of Israel’s war and not doing more to stop it sooner.
But make no mistake regarding Trump’s intentions or his MAGA cult’s. If Trump retakes the White House, inhumanity will become official U.S. policy on Day 1.
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