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Four Quartets's avatar

You forgot to mention one thing: His pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist policies -- which he does not hide, except from those who don't understand his thin attempts to paper them over -- are popular with the university-radicalized 20-and-30-year-olds who were the heart of Mamdani's campaign. Ponder this: Since Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel in 1947, every major Democrat has been pro-Israel, pro-Zionist. That is now over. It's good that Bill Kristol's late father is not alive to see his son's tepid, I'm-not-sure, he-is-a-fresh-voice..."critique."

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Terry Mc Kenna's avatar

But it is time for Dems to understwnd that young folks - so 40 ish, really don't have the same relationship to the holocaust or Israel that old folks do. I live in a mostly Hispanic town and they see the world fron a perspective that has the US and Israel and part of a white hegemony - and they as oppressed.

So Dems may need to keep the young in their tent even if they disagree on Israel.

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