Joe Biden’s campaign is facing a strategic dilemma. Since the president’s job-approval ratings have been consistently low, his path to reelection depends on making 2024 a comparative choice between himself and Donald Trump, his scary, extremist predecessor. That task is becoming more urgent as evidence emerges that a sizable number of voters either don’t remember or misremember the four turbulent years of the Trump administration. But paradoxically, educating voters about the potential consequences of a Biden defeat could annoy and alienate them by pushing Trump fatigue to new heights.
Israel has always been a bad actor, but the current gencocide is clearly a low point. And thanks to social media, the mainstream media’s consent generation machinery is losing effectiveness. It’s hard to pretend nothing is happening when people see emaciated children on their instagram feeds. Biden doesn’t need any help making himself look like a sick monster.