This week, the Biden administration took the first step toward what appears to be an inevitable break with Israel in Israel’s war to extirpate the terrorist group Hamas from the Gaza Strip. Since Hamas’ vicious terror assault on Israel on Oct. 7 — an attack that killed at least 1,200 Israelis and left 250 Israeli hostages in Hamas’ hands — Israel has taken extraordinary measures to protect civilian life in Gaza while destroying Hamas’ military capacity. In the process, Israel has lost nearly 300 of its own soldiers, with thousands wounded. Despite total air superiority, Israel’s care on the ground has meant a successful terrorist-to-civilian kill ratio unprecedented in the history of modern warfare.
Nonetheless, the Biden administration has been champing at the bit to hamstring Israel in its efforts to defend itself. In the last two weeks, the Biden White House has activated Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to call for the ouster of the sitting Israeli government; deployed Vice President Kamala Harris to publicly warn Israel about the dangers of a military operation in the last Hamas stronghold, Rafah; and abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution separating calls for a ceasefire from calls for a hostage release.
None of this makes sense if the United States wishes Israel to finish off Hamas.
It all makes perfect sense if the Biden administration is seeking to placate its far-left wing, particularly the pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Michigan. Biden is currently losing Michigan handily to Republican nominee Donald Trump. If he loses Michigan, he almost certainly loses the election. And Biden believes that he cannot win if he does not outperform among the state’s approximately 200,000 Muslim American voters. By polling data, 49% of Muslim Americans believe Hamas’ rationale for the Oct. 7 terror attack was valid; 21% of Muslim Americans approve of the Oct. 7 attacks themselves.
But Biden isn’t losing Michigan because he’s losing Muslim American voters. Those voters will overwhelmingly vote for him, because the alternative is the most pro-Israel president in American history, Donald Trump. Not only that: Michigan is home to approximately 105,000 Jewish voters, and millions of Christian voters, many of whom Biden is risking by undercutting Israel in its existential war.
But Biden has been captured by his left flank. He has been told that he must pander to the most radical members of his coalition, getting them out to vote, rather than reaching out to political moderates and independents. That’s idiocy. The real reason he’s losing Michigan isn’t his lack of popularity among blue-collar voters — the same lack of popularity that explains his lagging poll numbers in states with lower Muslim populations like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Nevada.
All of this foolish political manipulation is the result of a Democratic myth fostered by Barack Obama’s successful 2012 campaign: the myth that Democrats can win simply by appealing to their minority coalition, along with hard-left white women in the suburbs. Obama was able to push that coalition to victory because he was a unique candidate; Democrats ever since have been attempting to mimic that strategy, to their electoral detriment.
Here’s the reality: Joe Biden will never be a favorite among leftist radicals. It was his supposed moderation that lifted him to victory in 2020. Abandoning that moderation likely means that he will find himself out of a job come January 2025.
Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is “The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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No matter how Biden tries to disengage from the Israelis, or the Ukrainians, his controlling Military industrial complex that gets rich off the sales of missiles, guns, equipment, will not let him do so, and as long as joe and his family gets his share of the spoils, he will just feign with mouth to object for political reasons, but act in support behind the scenes and when caught will claim he cannot comment due to national security issues, which in the end just boils down to his own political security. The next election should make a fur coat out of this Biden weasel, whose hair transplanted follicles keep all the warm fuzzy stuff falling our faster than he can TRANSplant them back in. Hump day at this Whitehouse is when the camels and their jockeys replace the purebred American racehorses and American raised jockeys, too honest to throw the race, let alone steal an election, proving Democrat donkeys and camels will always come in last when the clean race rules are followed, and the most qualified and talented sure bets are not hamstrung, or doped out by their media to lose.
Trump, if he wins needs to do all he can to gut the MIC. BUT I fear they are too vast and powerful, EVEN IF trump had two decades in office to do.
All citizens who place any value at all on their lives & freedoms must resort to any means necessary to eradicate any political party that expresses & offers sympathy & support in any way to the worldwide oppression, slaughter & terror committed by Islamist death armies in their effort to brutally dominate or kill every Jew & non Islam believer in the world.
It is not defeating Bin Laden, the Khomeini or Sinwar but defeating & banning the tenets of Islam, a political system disguised as religion, that preaches & endorses followers to commit suicide, genocide, terror & butchery to coerce submission to Islam dominance & control.
If US comes under attack from Islam then we can expect same betrayal we got from Obama apology tour & Bush threatening us for being against Islam after 9/11 & now the current Dem Party demanding we aid & sympathize with the Palestinian & other Islam believers who want to destroy us along with Israel.
I say BS.