Thread by @BenjaminNorton

After the US revolutionary movements of the 1960s, many ex leftists turned into liberal imperialist Democrats

In real time, we can now see 2010s Occupy/Bernie-era leftists turning into the new generation of Democrats. They think they're changing the party, but it's changing them

https://twitter.com/maxberger/status/1382343920974245888

Biden is:
-expanding war on Yemen & Syria
-continuing Trump's coup in Venezuela
-backing Haiti's dictatorship & Israeli apartheid
-throwing migrant kids in camps
-accelerating cold war on China/Russia

This "shift to the left" only exists in the fever dreams of NGO/media liberals

You can only convince yourself Biden is "shifting left" if you ignore international policy and fixate on a few domestic policies.

The US empire is even more aggressive and criminal abroad. The intersectional imperialists in the Democratic Party are just doing marketing at home.

I don't buy that the Democratic Party is "realigning." In fact all the evidence shows it is becoming even more right-wing economically.

I think what's actually happening is there is a new cold war on China & Russia, and military Keynesianism / "Cold War social democracy" is back