After 400 days of Gaza genocide, is a Trump America really that shocking?

Alameen Templeton
America has spent the last 400 days providing all the arms and diplomatic support Israel needs to “finish off” it’s Gaza genocide and, now, “progressive” voices are shocked because Americans have voted in Donald Trump as president. Again.
Liberal Zionists are, like, “so-last-year” when it comes to dusting off their democratic credentials and appealing to our common sense of solidarity and shared humanity.
‘It’s still 2023’
“So-last-year” is the only way to describe liberal zionists because they’d like us all to pretend that the last 400 days of Gaza genocide haven’t happened; they’d like us all to pretend it’s still 2023 and that they haven’t presided over and provided moral cover for the worst possible abnegation of democratic values – mass murder. We’re supposed to pretend they’re still decent defenders of human rights, human dignity and compassion and all the things that liberals supposedly hold dear.
Some of them might balk at being described as “Zionists”, but how else to you describe the so-called “progressive” side of America that, along with most of the 330 million people in the so-called “home of democracy” think the Gaza genocide is so normal, it’s not even worth a mention when agonising over the moral direction of America’s one-way road to perdition.
Four hundred days of Gaza genocide and we’re supposed to huff and puff along with them about the grave consequences of a “tyrannical” Trump presidency when the gore and the grief of Gaza is stained, from Gaza City to Rafah, entirely with Biden’s blood. And the shame is entirely America’s.

Are we supposed to stumble, innocent and pure, into 2025 while wondering where 2024 went to and what happened during 12 lost months? Maybe, like most liberal hacks sobbing about Holocaust Harris’s historical loss, we’ll just forget and move forward into the “new normal”?
Under a headline. “The US election, while shocking, was not a repudiation of democracy”, Guardian writer Austin Sarat bemoans having “spilled a lot of ink writing about the threat Trump poses to American freedom and the American way of life. Those warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears.”
American Pornocracy
America has gone and voted for Trump again, in the middle of the worst Holocaust the world has ever seen, with America pumping its ammunition, guns, tanks, armoured personnel carriers, bombs, missiles, bombers, fighter jets, anti-missile systems and broad-spectrum intelligence into the genocide while ensuring Israel has all the diplomatic and political protection needed to “get the job done”. And, now, Sarat is surprised Agent Orange is back in the White House.
Of course Trump is back in the White House! It’s completely appropriate to the Pornocracy that is America today.
Sarat’s shock is a bit like being surprised Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, or that Boris Johnson lied about Brexit.
Trump, the convicted felon, found guilty earlier this year on 34 counts of fraud, is scheduled to appear in a New York court on November 26 for sentencing, nearly two months before he’s due to be sworn in as president of the United States (Potus).
It raises the tantalising prospect that America’s newest president may have to take his oath of office inside a jailhouse before proceeding to the White House to sign an amnesty for himself.
But this is America we’re talking about, where international war criminals are given standing ovations in Congress while they’re in the middle of executing the worst Holocaust the world has ever seen.
In America, everyone’s entitled to his “Get Out of Jail Free” card (if it’s good for American business, “American freedom and the American way of life”).
Teflon Don
Legal experts say Trump’s lawyers are sure to argue that hauling the president-elect into a state courtroom in the middle of a presidential transition would impede the orderly transfer of power. “They will ask that any sentencing be adjourned until after Trump’s presidency,” a former state prosecutor Catherine Christian tells The Guardian.
But that would leave “The Teflon Don” facing a real risk of being found guilty and then – presumably being out of office, as the law prevents a third term – not being able to pardon himself.
Could that then not raise the danger of Trump once again refusing to leave the Oval Office? Like Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump may decide sacrificing his entire country’s future is better than a humiliating jail term and a January 6 repeat could occur, but as a successful coup next time.
Sarat says: “This week’s stunning election results will surely test the faith that sustains democracy. For Americans who believe in our constitutional republic, it seems almost unimaginable that voters, after hearing Donald Trump’s dark vision, still chose him as president.
“Progressives and people devoted to preserving democracy clearly have underestimated Trump’s appeal. We need to take a cold, hard look in the mirror and not be blinded by our own revulsion at Trump and all that he represents.”
Errr, does he remember 2024?
And what do we do about our revulsion for “Genocide” Joe and his trusty Holocaust Harris sidekick? For Palestinians, there’s no need for a “cold, hard look in the mirror”. They can see the handiwork of Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris all around them. Trump, so far anyway, hasn’t come near to the evil that the two “liberal” upholders of democracy have excused, propagated and lied for throughout these terrible 400 days of uninterrupted mass murder.
How does one overlook a genocide and then still describe oneself as “devoted to serving democracy”?
The purpose of democracy is to safeguard human rights and to prevent catastrophes like Hitler’s and Biden’s Holocausts.
Like “liberal”, white South Africans during apartheid, Sarat thinks he’s living in a democracy because he, and others like him, got to vote. Germans who voted for Hitler could under the same definition also describe themselves as democrats. Certainly, white “liberals” who voted DA during apartheid said they were part of “the only democracy in Africa”; like Israeli Zionists say they’re “the only democracy in the Middle East”.
The ‘right kind’ of democrat
Strangely, though, Palestinians who voted in the 2006 elections for Hamas would probably not be defined as “democrats” in Sarat’s world view. After all, America promptly sanctioned the new, democratically elected government of Palestine and Israel responded by placing Gaza under blockade. And that’s just fine by Sarat.
Sarat doesn’t think it odd that both parties’ national conventions locked out the Palestinian voice and ensured the genocide never became an election issue.
What do we do about our revulsion for murder, for seeing little children in Gaza blown to bits, for the hypocrisy spewed out by the White House’s propaganda machine for the last 400 days now?
For Palestinians, Trump is just more of the same.
Not so, for Sarat. He believes a vote for Holocaust Harris would have made all the difference: “Kamala Harris ran a campaign that offered joy and hope to the American people. Trump offered fear and hatred,” he says.
None of the “joy and hope” tricked down to the Palestinians during 400 days of Holocaust Harris’s vice-presidency. Why would all that change after she became president? If she’s willing to chuckle and cajole about mass murder as an underling, what more could she do when fully grown?
American democracy didn’t die when Donald Trump was elected for a second time. It died long before that.