Do you hear that? That’s the sound of hundreds of thousands of voters groaning at once after, on Thursday night, Democrats around the country realized that Biden can barely get through a debate, let alone beat Trump in the upcoming election.

In the resulting days, instead of party elders realizing something was horribly amiss and taking responsibility and action, voters have mostly been admonished that Biden is still their best shot to beat Trump, and that every vote that doesn’t break for Biden is plainly, a vote cast for Trump. It’s been a shocking pile-on of total dismissal of what voters think and feel—and frankly, it shouldn’t be a surprise this year. People sympathetic to the ongoing carnage in Palestine have been getting this response since at least October, waiting for the Democratic party to show any sign of good faith effort to win back those 700,000 voters.

Instead, these Muslims and Arabs are repeatedly lectured about how they don’t understand the threat Trump poses to their community. It should go without saying that Muslim and Arab voters know exactly who Donald Trump is. But the condescension, and the effort to blame the constituency who are trying to raise what they feel are valid concerns in service of helping the Democratic party beat Trump, has been astonishing to behold. And Democrats newly concerned about the 81-year-old president are being treated the same way—being told that their fears are unfounded. They’re hearing that “[Biden] had a bad night, but he’s had a great four years,” and that they must not “hand this election to Trump,” and that the “stakes are too high to do anything less.”

It’s all too familiar to anyone who........

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