Rather than commenting on your broader themes, let me mention that I used to own a business in Hamtramck, Michigan, a municipality in the Detroit area with a large Yemeni refugee population.

I used to eat every couple days at a little lunch counter run by a family from Yemen. They served delicious chicken and lamb and set out an amazingly good communal urn of milky, cardamon flavored tea.

I used to chat with the server, who is a very small extremely skinny young man I presumed to be in his mid teens. He wasn't, he was quite a bit older than that, but he was very small because he spent his childhood literally starving. He's suffering from health consequences he'll never fully recover from.

And his family are grateful to be in the United States, but like most you most refugees in Hamtramck, they spend a lot of time talking about how the United States is paying for the war that's killing their families, is arming the regime that's bombing children and starving an entire nation.

All because the US took sides in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. When Trump was in power, we knew he was snuggling up to the murderous, sexist, homophobic, literally torturing regime of Saudi Arabia. We knew Trump's son in law was best buddies with a monster, a Saudi prince who doesn't even stop at having a political opponent kidnapped and hacked to death while doing solid journalism outside Saudi Arabia.

When Trump was in power, Democrats were demanding the US do something about that. Do something about Yemen, do something about the prince.

Now that Biden is in power, we don't say anything. We just close our eyes to the fact that we're closely partnered with a nation led by vicious, murdering, disgusting people. We pretend Biden's policies are somehow different from Trump's, even though they are exactly the same with respect to enabling the vile Saudi regime.

When I close my eyes and see the kid who used to serve me chicken shawarma in Hamtramck, I feel tremendous rage at Biden's craven immorality. We deserve such a better leader than him. We deserve a leader who shares our values.