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Democrats need to go for the jugular and proclaim that Trump and the GOP have LOST the war with Iran. They need to force the point that with all the military might of the USA, the GOP was so incompetent, they lost.
Idk sounds like too easy of a win, what about running an unpopular plutocrat? Maybe Pelosi?
Pelosi is too young.
/s
Nah. Dems should push the point that imperialism is doomed. That the MIC needs to be deconstructed. That serving zionism is genocidal. Etc.
But they won't.
Because the average American still thinks half of what you just said is insane. And you could sell them if you dumbed it down, but that means not using words like zionism
You want Dems to run to the right of Trump on Iran? 'Member when they tried that with the southern border?
The American right is all about pretending they didn't lose. Short list of examples in cronological order:
Of course the USA lost this thing with Iran. We didn't even state a clear goal and STILL wound up in a state where the absolute best we could hope to describe it is as a draw.
It isn't running to the right to describe things factually. Reality, after all, has a well known left-wing bias.
And the Dems have a sordid history of trying to outdo Reps on 'tough' foreign policy. The lesson from the current conflict shouldn't be: "Reps are too incompetent to win this war", it should be: "our entire policy towards Iran (and Israel) has been a counterproductive disaster".
This win/lose framework is childish and feeds into the imperialism that is the actual problem.