Man, this is going to get tricky for Democrats. With a strong majority of the electorate already opposed to this illegal war and an overwhelming majority of Dems opposed, staking a position on the war and in particular the proposed War Resolution is going to sniff out those who serve Israeli/Zionist interests in contrapose to their ostensible constituencies.
I can already hear the parsing and prevaricating being rehearsed at DNC HQ. There will be a few principled Republicans (Rand Paul and Thomas Massie at least) who will vote no and otherwise object, but the Dems will have to analyze this and designate the assigned yes votes in the manner they approved last year’s budget resolution.
This strikes me as a moment to redefine the party consistent with traditional liberal values - the rule of law and opposition to aggression among others, which, combined with the embrace of its former working class economics, could lead them out of the dark and toward the superiority of their electoral appeal that marked the post-war period.
I would like to say I’m optimistic about that but I’d be lying. I think the party is dead to me.
