the current US president really going all in on supporting the extermination in gaza during an election year really seems mystifying to me. as if deliberately trying to alienate his progressive base.
is it some sort of loyalty test? pushing democrat voters to support war crimes because "the other guy is worse"? do the democrat establishment think they are invincible? are they high on their own kool-aid? I don't get it. every day trump looks more likely.
@hugo It is nearly impossible to explain the immense weirdness of the coalitions and history behind these decisions, but I think my best shot would be that he's maintaining near-perfect continuity with the political world of the past 40 years and there is an enormous rift here about whether we still live in that world or not. (And the rift is so hot and terrifying because both ~sides know that reality is up for grabs.)
@kissane nice! thank you. that seems eminently plausible too. I guess I was interpreting it as a deliberate, agentive or strategic stance, whereas maybe it just boils down to inertia, denial, coagulated worldviews.
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