In defending the militarist status quo, Democrats ceded the anti-war lane to Republicans. As they enter the political wilderness, it\u2019s time to reckon with what they got so wrong<\/p>\n
The most devastating appraisal of the 2024 Democratic national convention<\/a> was delivered by the neoconservative doyen Bill Kristol<\/a>: \u201cLeon Panetta quoting Ronald Reagan! My kind of Democratic convention.\u201d He meant it as praise.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day, rumors had been flying around Chicago about that evening\u2019s possible surprise speakers. Who would it be? Beyonc\u00e9? Taylor Swift? Close! It turned out to be the 86-year-old former CIA director and secretary of defense who last served in government over a decade ago. In his speech, he cited Ronald Reagan to rail against \u201cisolationism\u201d, telling the assembled crowd: \u201cOur warriors need a tough, cool-headed commander-in-chief to defend our democracy from tyrants and terrorists,\u201d and declaring that Kamala Harris<\/a> would be that leader.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In defending the militarist status quo, Democrats ceded the anti-war lane to Republicans. As they enter the political wilderness, it\u2019s time to reckon with what they got so wrong The most devastating appraisal of the 2024 Democratic national convention was delivered by the neoconservative doyen Bill Kristol: \u201cLeon Panetta quoting Ronald Reagan! My kind of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}