It's also important to note that critiquing powerful people, both during elections and while in office, may superficially align with reactionaries but on a deeper level has to be done. A lot of the more moderate anti-war movement went away in 2009 when Obama took office, though that administration never pulled out of Afghanistan and pros…
It's also important to note that critiquing powerful people, both during elections and while in office, may superficially align with reactionaries but on a deeper level has to be done. A lot of the more moderate anti-war movement went away in 2009 when Obama took office, though that administration never pulled out of Afghanistan and prosecuted wars in many different countries, including blowing up a DWB hospital. Republicans would occasionally cynically take potshots at his foreign policy, and the sentiment was to rally around the President from bad-faith attacks.
But it was still horrific foreign policy, and those that remained mobilized in the anti-war movement were right- from his candidacy through the presidency, President Obama needed to be held to account for continuing the post-9/11 open-ended War on Terror.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" turns into "Defend Blue No Matter What" when in office. Actually demanding accountability isn't as common as it needs to be. I'm from northern California, I first saw Kamala Harris in person in 2011 when she wasn't even Attorney General yet. There's the nativist and misogynistic attacks she's already facing, but there's also a record that's long, full of bad shit just like Biden's record is. You can't pull back entirely just because she's getting hammered for bad reasons by the Trumpists.
It's also important to note that critiquing powerful people, both during elections and while in office, may superficially align with reactionaries but on a deeper level has to be done. A lot of the more moderate anti-war movement went away in 2009 when Obama took office, though that administration never pulled out of Afghanistan and prosecuted wars in many different countries, including blowing up a DWB hospital. Republicans would occasionally cynically take potshots at his foreign policy, and the sentiment was to rally around the President from bad-faith attacks.
But it was still horrific foreign policy, and those that remained mobilized in the anti-war movement were right- from his candidacy through the presidency, President Obama needed to be held to account for continuing the post-9/11 open-ended War on Terror.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" turns into "Defend Blue No Matter What" when in office. Actually demanding accountability isn't as common as it needs to be. I'm from northern California, I first saw Kamala Harris in person in 2011 when she wasn't even Attorney General yet. There's the nativist and misogynistic attacks she's already facing, but there's also a record that's long, full of bad shit just like Biden's record is. You can't pull back entirely just because she's getting hammered for bad reasons by the Trumpists.