Do Democrats Despise Diplomacy Now?

There seems to be no interest in diplomacy of any kind with Pyongyang now.

Matthew Petti comments on the Democratic Party platform’s bizarre attacks on Trump’s foreign policy for not being hawkish enough:

The Democrats' 2024 platform attacks the very idea of talks with North Korea. Trump's approach, the platform says, was "embarrassing the United States on the world stage including by flattering and legitimizing Kim Jong Un, exchanging 'love letters' with the North Korean dictator."

As Petti notes, attacking Trump for negotiating with North Korea is not new for the Democrats, but it is notable that the previous platform did not condemn engagement with Kim as sharply as it did this time. There seems to be no interest in diplomacy of any kind with Pyongyang now. If we look back at the 2020 platform, there was at least some lip service about dplomacy even if it did have denuclearization as the goal. Then again, the Biden administration never made that diplomacy a priority and spent the last three and a half years letting the problem get worse.