There’s a big reason Biden is losing younger voters: Israel-Palestine | Moira Donegan

The US president's hawkish support for Israel has alienated younger voters, progressives, and Arab and Muslim Americans

The 2024 presidential contest should not be close. Joe Biden's opponent, Donald Trump, is a bigot, a liar and a crook, with dozens of credible sexual assault allegations, a disastrous track record of enabling sadistic racism in both his policy and his rhetoric, a frank admission of his own authoritarian ambitions, and 92 pending felony charges.

The Republican party that the former president leads has become beholden to a small but extremely powerful base of voters with wildly unpopular social views, particularly regarding abortion - views that have driven the Republicans to election losses in virtually all major contests since the summer of 2022. Voters hate them, and reject their vision for the US; few politicians have ever been so unpopular as Trump is, and few political platforms have ever seemed so determined to alienate and anger voters as the Republican party's.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist