“I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble.”

• Richard Nixon 1974

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-week-in-jewish-history--united-states-president-richard-nixon-becomes-first-american-president-to-visit-israel

“In the Middle East, in particular, a strong, credible America remains the best guarantor of Israel’s integrity and survival as a free nation.”

Ronald Reagan 1982

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/quotes/a-strong-credible-america-remains-the-best-guarantor

Objectively false

How so?

The only deflection is pretending that what is happening in Gaza is Biden’s idea and not a continuation of 70 years of policy held by both parties.

Do you think Biden is the prime minister of Israel?

Go ahead, tell me how Trump and the Republicans are better than the Democrats. I’m sure any explanation you give won’t make it glaringly obvious don’t belong to any minority groups.

“Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

Democrats do not reject political plurality.

Democrats do not reduce democracy (rather they increase it by defending voting rights).

Democrats protect the separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

Democrats do not fit the definition of nationalism, let alone ultranationalism.

They do not hold strong beliefs in hierarchy, oppose democracy, or oppose egalitarianism. That’s just an outright lie.

Let’s go with Umberto Eco’s definition since it is well known and it is numbered for easy reference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism#Overview

The only part that might apply to Democrats is #6.

The system as it stands does not support third parties and Democrats are the only hope we have of changing that system without massive bloodshed and suffering.

Trump and his fascist goons are worse. Period. End of discussion.

You really should look up the definition of fascist, because you are using it wrong.

One side are literal fascists and the other is not. Nothing else matters compared to that.

JIMMY CARTER: “Well, as you may know, I had a policy when I was president of not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region of the world, and some of our allies were very irate about this policy. And I have to say that I was not, you know, as thoroughly briefed about what was going on in East Timor as I should have been. I was more concerned about other parts of the world then.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/10/jimmy_carter_indonesia_east_timor_genocide

That sounds like a completely believable explanation to me. I can completely believe that that the military advisors didn’t give him the full picture of what was happening there.