THE DEMOCRAT'S WAR PROBLEM IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE

The Democrats Have Foolishly Taken a Moral Stance in Support of Unpopular Wars

After an abysmal showing in the November elections, the chattering class of the Democratic party has demonstrated a remarkable predisposition for voter shaming. According to their self-serving rhetoric, Black men voted for Donald Trump in unprecedented numbers because they are misogynists and Latino voters did the same because, according to Chuck Todd, they don’t support democracy. The unfortunate democrats are victims of their virtues. They struggle to hold the line for fairness and democracy in a nation of misogynist authoritarian minority voters.

Meanwhile, in the world of sanity, we recognize that the electoral debacle was driven by real politics and, in particular, the party’s unrelenting drive for war. In fact, many economists argue that a significant portion of the domestic inflation was caused by out-of-control military spending. Unfortunately, the Party of Joe Biden is fundamentally unable to consider any connections between its pro-war foreign policy and the dramatic reduction in support from virtually all of its traditional constituencies.

These fools have tied themselves to an anchor of false morality and jumped overboard. They are well aware that they need to rise to the surface for air and they are willing to do anything to accomplish that existential goal except free themselves from that anchor. The Ukraine conflict is quite easy to understand if viewed through the lens of history. For decades, the Russians have made it clear that any NATO incursion into Ukraine would invite a military response. Many of the top foreign policy voices in the US and Europe have voiced their concerns that a US push into Ukraine could potentially result in a military clash between nuclear superpowers and trigger an extinction-level conflict. A Pentagon-funded document in 2019 titled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia” acknowledged that “Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.” The argument that this conflict was unprovoked can be accepted only if we ignore everything that happened before February 2022. The truth is quite simple, the US sponsored a violent coup in 2014 to overthrow the democratically elected government in Kyiv and replace it with a puppet regime that proudly display the legacy and iconography of the Third Reich. Upon taking full control of Ukraine, the US immediately began flooding the country with Western armaments and preparing entrenched positions for a future war with Russia. This Ukraine timeline tells the story quite clearly.

This brings us to the moral component of the story. Forced to lie to the American people, the liberal interventionists elected to paint the Russians as illogical aggressive savages who invaded Ukraine as part of an imperial expansionist plot to rule Europe. According to their narrative, Vladimir Putin hates democracy and is acting on a diabolical plot to oppress the Ukrainian worshippers of nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. Oops, I meant the poor innocent Ukrainians who long for a liberal Western democracy. This creates a massive moral dilemma for the Democrats. While their position may be popular with John Bolton and the Cheney clan, most Americans are war-weary and long for a period of peace and domestic rebuilding. Donald Trump clearly articulated his opposition to the conflict and swore to end it as soon as possible were he elected, and he won in a landslide. The people want an end to the conflict but the Party of Joe Biden and John Bolton must furiously resist. If they reverse course it will expose the reality that their arguments for supporting the war were disingenuous. The party is unable to walk away from a position that is based on the fabricated moral imperative to defend democracy and stop a brutal unprovoked military invasion.

Donald Trump has no personal investment in the neocon Ukraine project. He seems to despise both President Zelensky and his European supporters. This is understandable because the President-elect was impeached over a phone call to Zelensky and virtually all of Biden and Zelensky’s European allies worked openly on behalf of the Kamala Harris Campaign. He seems genuinely interested in ending the conflict as his first option, or withdrawing the US from this catastrophe if those efforts fail. The next few months will present a significant political problem for the Democrats. The war-weary electorate will almost surely support President Trump’s efforts to end this conflict and the minority party will have to decide whether to continue pushing their highly flawed argument in favor of continuing the bloodshed or reverse course. The party's political alignment with the likes of John Bolton and Bill Kristol will make a course adjustment almost impossible, leaving President Trump in a position to strengthen his grip on numerous democrat constituencies.

The Gaza conflict presents a similar problem for the Democrats. The party’s base is furious over the brutality committed against the Palestinians and, though the party can’t possibly admit it, the left flank of that base was a no-show on November 5th and may never return to the fold. Articles such as this, this, and this give President Trump the ammunition he needs to make the argument that the Democrats are the party of war and that he is the purveyor of peace. Imagine a scenario wherein 3 months into the Trump administration, the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza are no more. Even worse for the Democrats, they are saddled with the responsibility of opposing the end of the Ukraine proxy war or tacitly admitting that their reasons for supporting it were all fabricated. Additionally, when the conflict ends and the Russians do not continue to Poland and beyond as President Biden predicted, questions about Europe’s destructive energy policies (the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline) will surely arise.

The Biden administration wholly aligned its party with Washington’s most adventuresome warmongers and disentangling the democratic party from these knuckle draggers will be no easy task. Their repugnant argument that they were supporting deadly wars on at least two fronts in support of some moral imperative will make it near impossible for the party to recover in the near term (before the mid-term elections) if President Trump sticks to his word and liberates the US from Biden’s neocon madness.

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