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Max Marty's avatar

This could very well be a good thing.

If the Republican party becomes 100% (not just 80%) America's populist party - then even the left wing populists will end up pulling a Bernie-bro and joining them. This will result in a giant sucking sound as populists in the Democrat party get sucked out into the Republicans and remaining non-populist Republicans get sucked out into the Democrats. Within a few years, both parties will be realigned into populist Republicans and anti-populist Democrats.

With that move, Democrats will be able to fully embrace abundance, trade, immigration, and constitutional protections.

Sounds like an interesting world to me. There's at least a certain clean elegance to it.

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Nude Africa Forum Moderator's avatar

Thinking about how Israel could plausibly go from 90% and 60% support among the two parties to 50% and 25% in the course of a decade… If I were a Jew anywhere in the world outside Israel, I would be growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli leadership.

Gaza deserved a good deal of devastation, but thismulti year campaign has worsened the lives of the Jewish diaspora by fomenting antisemitism and has permanently damaged Israel’s standing among the younger half of the US electorate. And there is no reason to believe there is a proportionate benefit to Israel itself. It is not literally going to wipe out Gaza’s population. It will still, after all of this, have a hornets nest on its hands, even if it indefinitely occupies the Strip.

I tend to assume Israel knows what it is doing. Time will tell.

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