…..Frankly, the pressure on Joe Biden and his party is building and is going to get even worse The vocal activists in the party simply do not like Israel and hate the general idea of “war” (of course overlooking the people who started the war.) Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib put out a video the other day in which she openly incorporated a chant that favors the destruction of Israel as well as saying that her fellow Democrat Joe Biden is complicit in “genocide.” Democrats are worrying, perhaps for good reason, that their support among Muslim-Americans might plummet and that any sort of fall-off could hurt them in places like Michigan. Tlaib is openly threatening as much. There is plenty of evidence to show just how unenthusiastic young liberals, especially those of color, are towards Biden, and if they do not vote for him, he may very well lose. Thus the pressure for Biden to put distance between himself and Israel is going to be immense. We will see what the old man is really made of.
Jewish-Americans are and have for generations have heavily voted for Democrats (which of course used to frustrate me greatly as a Jewish GOP activist.) If Biden goes wobbly are they now going to abandon him in greater numbers for the likes of Donald Trump? That would be hard for many to do, but there is a huge and grown chasm among Democrats over this issue. Voters at large may say images of large rallies and people caring Palestinian flags chanting anti-Israel and anti-American slogans and this chaos may produce a backlash and lead some to supporting the “chaos candidate” and the one who unironically casts himself as the candidate of “law and order” Donald Trump.
We are now just about a year away from the 2024 election. There will be some things to take into consideration from voting this coming Tuesday that political partisans will try to overemphasize. If a Democrat somehow wins the Governorship of Mississippi (I will write in detail about that race tomorrow), you can expect the party to proclaim a landslide against Republicans is in the offing. If the Republican candidate in Kentucky beats conventional wisdom (as at least one poll now shows a much tightened race) and knocks off the incumbent Governor, you can be certain that Republican partisans will be hollering that Biden is headed for a landslide defeat. Everyone should be cautious. Off-year elections the year before the Presidential vote usually do not mean all that much.
With Congress back in session, it was quite a divisive and silly week. The Senate fought one particular obstructionist over military promotions but most of the news was in the House were there were censure resolutions and motions to expel a Member and votes about Hamas and anti-Semitism on college campuses and all sorts of efforts to get people “on the record” in advance of the next election. I think the anti-Hamas resolution should have been a slam-dunk and while it passed easily, I am quite surprised that so many Democrats did actually vote against it.
The other matters were more ridiculous in general and I think the average American voter just looks down on the whole circus….
CG @ Politicaldog101….