Glenn FleishmanI don’t entirely understand who Republicans are performing for. The ones who are most in the bag for Israel, no matter how genocidal Israel is, and are currently yelling about antisemitism on college campuses, do not care about antisemitism or students or Israel as a state or Jews. Many of them are either overtly or covertly antisemitic. Who is the audience?
Kyle Green@glennf The press.
@krg but people read the press. Why do they care if the press portray them as opposed to antisemitism and in support of Israel? I can’t imagine their voters care. And Jewish people vote mostly for Democrats, but a significant fraction vote for Republicans for social/economic/ideological reasons.
@glennf It’s performative aimed at working the refs who cover news for the disturbingly large portion of the population that still thinks that there are two major functioning political parties run by adults in this country.
Also, it’s very important to their eschatology that Jerusalem remains governed by Jewish people.