Jeremy Slevin

The campaign tried to run the 2008 playbook in a country where partisan defections are ~20% lower than they were back then.

How Trump “Won” The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority

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Biden 2020 to Trump 2024 voters: ≈2.5 million

Biden 2020 voters who stayed home in 2024: ≈19 million

Source: AP VoteCast

Last night, 19 Senators voted to end illegal arms sales to Israel.

We stood up to AIPAC, the Democratic Senate leadership, and the Biden administration.

We must continue going forward to end illegal arms sales and hold Netanyahu accountable for his war crimes.

13/15 It requires force and violence against unfavored groups to maintain itself.

12/15 Ethnonationalism will never guarantee safety. Building a society based on the supremacy of one group over another is a recipe for hatred and resentment.

11/15 The irony, as this week so painfully proved, is that Jews are not safe IN Israel.

10/15 You often hear variations of the phrase “No Jew is safe without Israel” from US politicians.

9/15 For Jews, who tend to be liberal, this creates a cognitive dissonance.

8/15 The result is an ever growing gap between US rhetoric and reality, an ever-more glaring hypocrisy that undermines US credibility on human rights.

7/15 At the same time, with rightwing authoritarianism on the rise, US liberalism has leaned further into rhetoric about human rights and the rule of law to contrast itself with Trumpism at home and Russia/China et al abroad (the war in Ukraine being the latest example).

6/15 It’s also part of the schism in the US—with the US right increasingly embracing white Christian (sometimes “Judeo-Christian”) ethnonationalism often explicitly modeled on Israel.

5/15 Over time, the contradictions have only heightened. Israel’s government has moved further right, abandoning most pretenses of human rights or self-determination for Palestinians.

4/15 The US has sat at the center of these contradictions, as a multiracial democracy (at least on paper), one of the driving forces behind the post-war body of international law AND as the primary benefactor of Israel.

3/15 The contradiction of course is that Israel’s policies run counter to many of these laws and the government has openly flouted international treaties and law for decades.

2/15 One vision seeks safety in ethnonationalism—a state built on Judaism with other peoples (especially native Palestinians) subjugated. The other seeks safety in pluralism and the rule of law.

1/15 Some thoughts on the latest round of violence- Since the Holocaust, the Jewish community has been central to two simultaneous and contradictory projects: the state of Israel and international institutions/bodies of law that can ensure the Holocaust never happens again.

17/17 Our goal should be safety for ourselves and everyone else. To achieve that we can’t continue to wall ourselves off, and deny others rights.

16/17 It is actually the model of pluralism and equality under the law, (imperfectly) embodied in the US, where Jews have found the most security.

15/17 It requires force and violence against unfavored groups to maintain itself.

14/17 Ethnonationalism will never guarantee safety. Building a society based on the supremacy of one group over another is a recipe for hatred and resentment.

13/17 The irony, as this week so painfully proved, is that Jews are not safe IN Israel.

12/17 You often hear variations of the phrase “No Jew is safe without Israel” from US politicians.

11/17 For Jews, who tend to be liberal, this creates a cognitive dissonance.

10/17 The result is an ever growing gap between US rhetoric and reality, an ever-more glaring hypocrisy that undermines US credibility on human rights.

9/17 At the same time, with rightwing authoritarianism on the rise, US liberalism has leaned further into rhetoric about human rights and the rule of law to contrast itself with Trumpism at home and Russia/China et al abroad (the war in Ukraine being the latest example).

8/17 It’s also part of the schism in the US—with the US right increasingly embracing white Christian (sometimes “Judeo-Christian”) ethnonationalism often explicitly modeled on Israel.

7/17 Over time, the contradictions have only heightened. Israel’s government has moved further right, abandoning most pretenses of human rights or self-determination for Palestinians.

6/17 The US has sat at the center of these contradictions, as a multiracial democracy (at least on paper), one of the driving forces behind the post-war body of international law AND as the primary benefactor of Israel.

5/17 The contradiction of course is that Israel’s policies run counter to many of these laws and the government has openly flouted international treaties and law for decades.