Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.

Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.

“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.

“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.

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    Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Have you ever read, like, anything written by a communist?

    If Bernie isn’t a social democrat, why is he supporting Israel’s genocide?

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      “If Bernie isn’t a social democrat, why is he supporting Israel’s genocide?”

      These things are completely separate. You can be a fascist Zionist and support it, you can be a Liberal Democrat and support it, you can even be a socialist Zionist like Albert Einstein. Zionism and Socialism are not mutually exclusive.

      That’s not even mentioning that just recently Bernie put out a statement condemning the actions of Israel

      Yes I’ve read plenty written by communists, I’ve been a member of a party for fucks sake. But trotting out slogans like “Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism” is absolutely not a substitution for actual political analysis, otherwise Capital would’ve been a book of catchy chants. Not all imperialism happens because of capitalism, to act like it does would heavily discount the decades of ideological reasoning that’s made Christian extremists in the US prop up Zionism within the Republicans and the geopolitical reasoning that’s propped it up with the Neoliberal wing of Democrats and its long dead Republican brother in the Republican Neo-Con wing.

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        Ultimately, yeah, labor Zionism totally exists. It is entirely possible for Marxists to make a rightist error and support empire. History is full of examples!

        I’m going to keep calling him a liberal until he calls for a ceasefire because in policy terms he is behaving indistinguishably from the rest of the Democrats.

        The bare minimum is calling for a ceasefire. The DSA did it. The Squad did it? Why can’t he?