https://x.com/MaryKostakidis/status/2013002399120785614
** Great article by on the fracture of the MAGA base.
‘The nationalist movement that promised to put America first is finally asking why there’s a country that comes before America in America First, and it turns out that question doesn’t have a good answer….
Trump himself reportedly told a Republican donor “my people are starting to hate Israel,” which leaked to the Financial Times and caused the kind of minor scandal that everyone forgot about in three days because there’s too much else happening. But that quote matters more than any policy speech…
when Mossad goes on American television and openly brags about being a “global production company” that creates “pretend worlds,” and American foreign policy on Israel exists in what increasingly looks like a pretend world completely disconnected from American interests and American public opinion, maybe we should take them at their word about what they do. Maybe the production is exactly what they said it was….
the demographics are completely against them and they know it. Support for Israel is collapsing among younger Americans across the political spectrum, including among young evangelicals, which is supposed to be impossible because evangelicals are historically the most reliably pro-Israel demographic besides Jewish Americans themselves. The Christian Zionist base that’s propped up Republican support for Israel for decades is aging out, dying out, and their kids and grandkids don’t share the conviction that God personally demands American support for whatever Israel does. The theology isn’t landing anymore, the prophecy isn’t compelling, and nothing’s replacing it except a vague sense that maybe we shouldn’t be funding this.
The pretend world is cracking... the era of unconditional support, of blank checks and red carpets for war criminals, of political careers destroyed for asking basic questions about whether this serves American interests, that era is ending. Not because antisemitism suddenly became acceptable in American politics, but because Americans across the political spectrum are tired of paying for someone else’s crimes and being told to call it an alliance.’
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