For me, perhaps the most bizarre and disturbing behaviour of the Democrats is their denial of genocide, their failure to recognize genocide as a crime against humanity, their willingness to shrug off the atrocities of genocide because those in the Biden-Harris administration supporting and arming genocide are "not Trump."
This might be the most appalling evil committed by the Democrats during my lifetime.
Its previous rivals were bad enough. Democrats gave us the National Security Act of 1947. Democrats gave us the war against Vietnam. Democrats approved Reagan's NAFTA and destroyed America's industrial base. Democrats abandoned the American working- and middle-classes to bow before the professional managerial class. Democrats worked with neocon Republicans to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Democrats worked with market-fundamentalist Republicans to financialize the American economy and to wipe out the United States as an economic world power. Democrats armed and supplied cash to the Zelensky regime in a proxy war against Russia. Democrats broke diplomatic ties with Russia, alienated China, and reinforced the necessity of BRICS for countries appalled by American dishonesty and stupidity.
All of these actions have led to political-economic isolation at home, and to a pile of corpses abroad. All of these actions are evil. But now, the Biden-Harris administration has gone even further, and the result is an Israeli genocide that Democrats apparently consider "normal" and "forgivable."
The world will not forgive. Whether American voters will forgive remains to be seen.
"But Trump! But Trump!" the Democrats will cry, as they have in recent years. What they fail to understand is that, to beat Trump and the Republicans, they must offer something more than Trump and the Republicans could even begin to promise: substantial improvements to the material conditions of American's lives; moral and ethical principles worth supporting; hope for a world that is not poised on the abyss of endless wars, unstoppable decline, and a towering stack of dead bodies.
In short, the Democrats would have done well to examine themselves, to correct their own policies and their own failings, but Democrats would rather blame everyone else on the planet than see themselves clearly.
And for this, Americans will suffer.
