What has become abundantly clear over the last few days is that it doesn't matter how many disgusting things come out about Platner, leftists will defend him just like maga has always done with trump.
Because Gaza is NOT a genocide. And plenty of Democrats do not believe it’s a genocide. And if the Democratic Party puts the words “Gaza” and “genocide” together in their platform, the Democratic Party will lose nationally and in battleground states. And they’ll deserve to lose.
A mayor represents every New Yorker. Using City Hall resources to post a one-sided video about Israel’s founding — omitting the UN partition plan, the Arab rejection, the reasons that many Palestinians left, the many who stayed and the 850,000 Jewish refugeesforced to leave Arab lands — isn’t commemoration. It’s propaganda. Releasing it right before Shabbat isn’t leadership. It’s provocation. Especially when Nakba Day “commemorations” in this city featured open support for US-designated terror organizations, veneration of their leaders, and calls for Israel’s destruction. New Yorkers deserve a mayor with the moral clarity to call that out.
The New York Times falsely reported that Israel shelled a Gaza hospital - turned out to be a Hamas rocket.
It ran a front-page story portraying a child with cerebral palsy as evidence of mass starvation.
And now: “rape dogs.”
The @nytimes long ago stopped being a paper of record. It rushes to print sensational claims hoping their readers are stupid.
The far left of the Democratic Party has become a cesspool of bigotry, intolerance, and anti-Americanism dressed up in post-colonial theory.
The far right of the Republican Party has become a cesspool of bigotry, intolerance, and a willingness to ignore cruelty and injustice.
Most Americans aren’t in either camp. They’re reasonable, pragmatic, and love this country. They want to live together in harmony.
But our political system is failing that majority.
If we’re serious about fixing it, we need campaign finance and electoral college reform, smarter regulation of social media, and primary systems that stop rewarding the loudest fringe extremists.
America has stood on the brink before and found a way back.
We can do it again.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she will oppose all military aid to Israel, including defensive weapons. Will it set a new standard for Democrats? https://t.co/EyDMx9Q68E
I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies.
But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.
Would love to see more Dems calling out antisemitism on their own side with the same fervor.
It starts with admitting how big a problem it is and then revoking all support for Platner, icing out Mamdani, alienating Piker & candidates who join his stream, etc