Biden has done more to undermine the US empire in the last 8 months than Trump did in 4 years. Biden is exposing the contradictions of US empire in a way that Trump could never.
If Trump was president, then the mainstream narrative would be that the genocide in Gaza was simply because of Trump and Bibi’s leadership. And you know what? Given how past presidents were able to rein in Israel when polite society started sympathizing with Palestinians, it would be believable. Instead, we get to see front and center, how a man that’s been at the top echelons of us foreign policy for decades approves and supports genocide. This is the establishment’s genocidal war.
In other words, Trump is perceived as an aberration, even when hes just continuing the same US foreign policy that weve been doing for decades. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem is still framed as entirely Trump’s decision, even though he was just enacting a policy that Biden voted for in the 90s. And of course Biden did nothing to reverse that move, or even try to extract concessions to move peace talks forward.
Biden is damaging the “international rules-based order” in a way that would make Dick Cheney blush. Bush at least tried to put a veneer of international law on the criminal invasion of Iraq. But it appears the US and Israel are ready to burn the UN to the ground in order to carry out this genocide. Trump would be doing the same exact thing, except he would also serve as a scape goat for the liberal order (just get trump out of office, and we can go back to rule-following)
Don’t get me wrong, they’re both excellent accelerationist candidates. The world is watching two senile, hateful, egotistical vile men fight for control of the empire as the world burns.
I think Biden is the accelerationist candidate, but he’s a little too good at it (it being- destroying the empire and potentially the whole world in the process).
I don’t support accelerationism regardless, but Biden is basically leading the whole west goose-stepping in their crusade against Russia, China, Palestine, Iran, and the multipolar efforts of the entire global south. The extent of his constant escalations abroad is horrifying and I can only expect them to get worse- meanwhile, domestically he’s no slouch in further destroying the living standards and material conditions/foundations the empire was built upon, and (arguably) serving better to tear at the fabric of the imperial cores’ societies than Trump ever could have (good riddance in that regard, fingers crossed, maybe the US will implode from within rather than explode from without and take the rest of humanity with it).
Frankly- Trump is a horrifying, nasty, murderous SOB- but that’s par for the course with western and particularly US leaders. I consider Biden and the neocon establishment that has reached its zenith across the west behind him an infinitely more worriesome beast, however- frankly, other than in domestic pseudo-progressive policy (which even then Biden is lukewarm on- and the horrors he supports abroad, from Banderites to Zionists obviously make him far more than a net negative in this regard as well) I consider Biden to be more corrupt, more unhinged, more destructive, a more effective herald for fascism across the west and within the US itself, and more dangerous than Trump in every other metric by a long shot.