Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Bulwark"
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There are still a tiny number of Trotsky's followers out there. There also exists a tiny cult of residual Leninists who believe the slogan "le pire le mieux." (The worse the better). Their theory is that bad things will make their imaginary "The Revolution" come faster. Think of them as 666ers who have read Das Kapital. In the original German.
The loony right, fertilised with Trump's adequate supply of ordure, magnify these tiny cults, and falsely call them "the Left."
Even Charlie, to his shame, does this, maybe once a month. Remember, he's from Wisconsin, Senator Joe McCarthy's old stamping grounds. Some of us accidentally step on dog turds (or used to: we've beaten dog owners into submission at last, so there's less of it around than there used to be.) in the streets as children.
With Charlie it wasn't dog turds, it was the politics of some of the grown-ups down the street.
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Antisemistism is stupid, and so are many antisemites.
(I don't know whether it's still there, but before Wikipedia became very large, and recently pretty competent as well, there used to be a good memo floating around on the then much smaller 'Net, an explanation of the differences between anti-semitism, antisemitism, and anti-Semitism floating around.
Very long story short: "antisemitism," one word, no caps, no hyphen. is best in general usage.
The hyphenated form is people not being sure what to do.
Anti-Semitism, on the other hand, never really existed, but Semitism, with a capital S, was a European, mostly French, antisemitic cult and theory of the 19th century. There may have been, I forget, a deliberately formed group of people working to defeat them. They would have been "Anti-Semites," I suppose.)
Because they are stupid, they think that saying they are anti-Zionist fully expresses their opposition to, and/or hatred of, Jews and all things Jewish.
This is of course nonsense.
Zionism has several meanings at different times and places, and is always a trend within Jewish thought and politics. From the Victorian Age through perhaps 1967 or so, it meant support for the creation of the State of Israel. It was for many years, probably right up to the Holocaust, a minority position of a minority of Jews.
The Orthodox Dogma, back through the centuries, has been that the re-creation of Israel should be in abeyance until the return of the Messiah. This somewhat itchy-scrathy feeling in the back of one's mind, that maybe we shouldn't be doing what we're doing, remains the among many politicians of the Orthodox stream who in fact hold power in that state, the State of Israel which has come into being despite their grandfathers' teaching and political opposition.
Today, in the context of Israeli pollitics, "Zionist" means one of a shifting array of centre-left and liberal democratic politics blocs or schools. To my, older, generation, it means the same thing as Mapai-Mapam used to mean.
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@davidobriend8560
You're not counting votes out there, David.
Trump has been very quiet about Ukraine, and until he decides which way to jump, his people -- 15%, not 37%, of Republicans -- are genuinely split on Ukraine.
No more than half of them , say 7% of all Republicans, are committed Putinite slime of the Bannon type.
These are noisy, but their numbers are declining, and they will vanish back to their variety of Birchite holes by six months after Trump's defeat or jailing, whichever comes first.
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