But the American Democrats went by one of the old obsessive American myth : "It the economy stupid" . "Fix the economy and they will vote for you".
Yet an American --H.L. Mencken -- warned them : "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong".
Joe Biden (among many) was a peace 'fanatic" . He wanted to be a diplomat in chief negotiating with two delusional gangsters rulers who understand solely force : Trump and Putin.
Albert Einstein was also convinced pacifist for a while but his views underwent a significant, forced evolution in the face of Nazism. He believed that under specific, extreme circumstances—such as confronting a regime dedicated to the destruction of his people—the use of force was a necessary, albeit hateful, last resort.
Read the most interesting dialogue he had with Freud when they discussed "Evil"
( N. Morgan Eros and Thanatos. The joy of killing, destroying, crushing nature and all creatures)