“I think what you’re reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn’t necessarily compare the two.”
Credit to @JoshuaHolland
That’s not what I said. The two main things I said initially were:
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I don’t feel that having a tactical disagreement with Israel over something unrelated, while fully supporting their ongoing program to kill Palestinians whenever they feel like and arming them the entire time, represents any humanity in Reagan’s Israel policy. I feel like giving food aid to the Gazans and telling Netanyahu there are particular cities he’s not allowed to bomb does. Not enough, by any means. But some. You might disagree, and point to the recent past as an argument for why. And fair enough if you do. Most especially fair enough if we do actually follow through on giving them $14 billion worth of weapons and money to keep killing with, which we seem poised to do at any moment.
I feel like you’re trying to make a disagreement here, like I’m for Biden and you’re against Biden and we’re each trying to make the best argument because one of us has to win. I am not operating that way. There’s actually not a whole lot of difference between how we see what he’s been doing and saying on Israel. Maybe I have a little more hope that he’ll start to do better things soon. But go back and read what I actually said. I’m just a person trying to make sense of the world and explain how I see it; for as much as I say good things about Biden, I’m not really on anybody’s “side.”