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These are absolute political minefields, and Bernie is challenging them. He is betting that the support he has built, and the basis on which he has built it, will mean his challenges to these powerful forces are boons, rather than hindrances, to his campaign. At the least, if he isn’t hurt by them, he will have shown conclusively that the electability argument is simply wrong. After all, the Cuba comments speak directly to his alleged affinity for left-wing authoritarians (which is nonsense).
One way or another, we will have the best evidence one could ask for in the next eight days, in the debate and then in South Carolina and Super Tuesday.Continue Reading

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The conditions for a two-state vision, such as the one Bill Clinton envisioned in his late and unlamented Parameters, are now two decades in the past. We must start basing our goals on current conditions. The supporters of Israeli policies have been doing that for years while we live in the past. And that’s why they’ve been winning.Continue Reading

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Netanyahu seems to think he can use some lessons from this round and do better next time, but it seems more likely that he will, once again, find more voters deserting him as they tire of him putting Israeli politics in limbo to protect himself from looming indictments.Continue Reading

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Trump is weaving his usual tangled web of lies to give the appearance that Joe Biden and other Democrats did what he is accused of doing — actually, what he has already admitted he did. It’s important to keep those facts straight. Rather than abdicate our ability to do so for ourselves and for our fellow citizens, and thereby also abdicate the obviously correct course of impeachment, maybe we should simply commit ourselves to keeping those facts straight and plainly in the public view. That way, we can win in 2020 and do the right thing now.Continue Reading