Joe Biden and Keir Starmer Are Warmonger Internationalists
The defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and the ascension of Joe Biden and Keir Starmer hasn’t just meant the defeat of domestic working-class politics — it’s meant the defeat of an egalitarian internationalism that opposes war and imperialism.
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to the media in London, England, 2020. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
Centrism has risen! Joe Biden and Keir Starmer are leading the Left back to the future, to the glories of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
At least, that seems to be the script. The rollback of more recent radicalism is in full swing. Biden not only defeated Donald Trump to win the US presidency, he also, and just as importantly from the point of view of the world order, saw off Bernie Sanders en route.
Keir Starmer has not, of course, won a general election yet, but he has set about dispatching his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left with an energy he has not noticeably expended in pursuit of any other political objective.
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