A lot of things wrong with Biden's response to Gaza (for the kids, this is what we called "understatement"), but one is their absolute inability to game out where this is going. Whatever else they thought in mid-October, that this would somehow all wrap up and then there would be a "next day" in a politically convenient time frame was part of it.
Orange man is bad, I know, which is why more of you people should've been receptive to criticism over 4 months ago. Tick tick tick.