"The instrument assumes anti-Zionist attitudes are antisemitic before it begins measuring, then discovers widespread antisemitism. The circularity is structural."

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When I Was John Fetterman | The Nation

They will claim, with all the comforts of hindsight, that it was impossible to see clearly how bad it would get. But they will be lying. It was clear to some of us from the very start.

This is about how a staffer saw her Progressive Democrat boss turn into a Genocidal Zionist Zealot.

And so we suffer, the world over, the consequences of a lazy and self-absorbed Democratic party dead-set on “playing dead.” Elected officials who would rather become the villain than take off the cape altogether. When Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, I was not surprised in the slightest. After all, who was left but the hacks, centrists, and grifters to work her campaign? The rest of us, “the groups” as Jentleson nebulously put it, the “magical thinkers,” the purists who simply could not stomach slaughtering 66,000 and counting were told, in so many words, to put up or shut up. The Fettermans of the world have cut off their own feet, and then gleefully rolled about on the floor, wondering why on earth they cannot walk.

It is full of great insights.

Look no further than Zohran Mamdani’s historic win to see proof that one need not sacrifice Palestinians or trans people at the altar of political expediency; that one can be a proud, self-identifying Democratic Socialist and pull off the greatest political upset in a generation not in spite, but because of it. In fact, contrary to the stagnant center-right philosophy of complacency, the only way to sustain political faith is by being for something in the first place.

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