Posted on 01/10/2024 4:25:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
The ongoing spate of antisemitism and anti-Israel protests sweeping the country following Hamas’s attacks on Israeli civilians last October are just the latest example of how the Democrat establishment has lost control of the radical left-wing activist class it has fostered and egged on for years. With a major election now less than a year away, the escalating extremism of these activists could cost Democrats big at the ballot box.
After Hamas’s terrorist attack left more than 1,200 innocent civilians dead, most elected Democrats – with notable exceptions like “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar – condemned the violence and called for solidarity with Israel. But many of these same Democrats have since backed down from that stance amid fierce backlash from their far-left base, which has not only excused Hamas’s brutal actions, but even celebrated them.
While the mainstream media has been reluctant to report on it, this unrest stemming from the militant antisemitism on the left only seems to be increasing despite attempts by the Democrat establishment to quell it.
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On January 6, for instance, as the press engaged in their annual campaign of smearing Donald Trump and conservatives as “insurrectionists,” anti-Israel leftists blocked a major interstate in Seattle, causing traffic to be backed up for six hours. The same day, another anti-Israel protest caused major gridlock on Chicago’s famous Lake Shore Drive.
A few days before those incidents, on January 3, left-wing protestors shut down the California General Assembly. Anti-Israel protestors also attempted to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City and Boston.
Elected Democrats have been largely powerless to stop or even discourage the alarming spike in antisemitism from their own supporters. On November 29, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer grudgingly acknowledged that the recent incidents of antisemitism were mostly coming from “people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers.”
The backlash from the left against President Joe Biden, who has wavered in his support for Israel but also has not openly endorsed Hamas’s actions as his left-wing base wants him to do, has been severe. Polling evidence shows that young voters are abandoning Biden in droves over his refusal to demand Israel stop its war on Hamas. In perhaps the clearest evidence that Democrat leaders have lost control of their base, even young White House staffers are in open revolt against the president over his stance on the war.
While many Democrat leaders and corporate media pundits have expressed alarm over the anti-Jewish radicalism of the left-wing activist class – in between excusing leftists’ calls for genocide – the liberal establishment should hardly be surprised.
Back in 2020, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Democrats and the legacy media openly encouraged the chaos that gripped American cities for weeks – violence that was far more widespread and deadly than the heinous antisemitic demonstrations on American streets today. Democrat leaders like Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren all marched in anti-police protests that later turned to riots, while the Democrat Party embraced the imagery and themes of the radical Black Lives Matter movement at their 2020 convention.
Despite the George Floyd riots causing more than $1 billion in property damage and leading to dozens of deaths, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X, “The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.” The Democrat establishment tacitly endorsed this sentiment, signaling to their activist base that violence was acceptable so long as it is in support of a left-wing cause.
In 2020, that cause was the “Defund the Police” movement and so-called “racial equity.” In that case, Democrats were able to largely escape the blame for the violence and destruction caused by their activists with help from their media allies.
But nearly four years later, it seems the radicalism of Democrats’ activist class has finally caught up to them and is costing the party big with everyday Americans. However, after years of telling fierce partisans that they are accountable to no one and nothing except the edicts of woke ideology, Democrats have created a major danger for themselves and the country that they are powerless to do anything about.
If liberal activists are indeed waking the rest of the country up to the growing extremism of the modern Democrat Party and setting the stage for an electoral wipeout this November, Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.
Just wait until the DNC convention in Chicago. It will be “Recreate ‘68”. The communist radicals will burn things down.
This was inevitable.
When you make promises to end America, some people are going to get angry when you’re not getting the job done.
I would retitle the photo:
“Biden looking for the bathroom.”
I sooooooooooooooooo cannot wait for Summer in Chicago. It's already a murder/looting/mugging/carjacking craphole, I cannot wait for the rioters to be added to the mix too!
1968 will look like a bbq compared to what awaits Chicago in 6 short months!
Blocking traffic is wrong, illegal and dangerous but not antisemitic. Being pro-palestinian is not necessarily antisemitic despite what Ben Shapiro says
>> Being pro-palestinian is not necessarily antisemitic despite what Ben Shapiro says
Intellectual BS. As executed throughout the world today, you bet your bootie pro-Palestinian is antisemitic. One hundred percent antisemitic.
Hmmmm. I thought the demoncrats WERE the left.. How can one tell this one, from that one.? They all smell, look and act the same.!
“While the mainstream media has been reluctant to report on it...”
The most pertinent part of the whole article. Everything else is drown out by the fact that most people aren’t hearting it.
It is the also the most relevant quote of our political time. It’s not just the low information voter who are lucky to turn on the evening news or swipe down past a few politically oriented tictok postings and glance past the titles, it is also the left leaning voters who don’t want their eyes opened. Their denial mechanisms are served very well by not hearing about things that could cause them conflict, and the MSM is collusive in providing them this cover for their biases.
And that includes the Jewish ones. You can’t blame the Democrats for making calculated political decisions. Joe Biden could grow a Hitler mustache and adopt the swastika as his 2024 campaign flag, and he’d still get at least 70% of the Jewish vote. Who wouldn’t bend over backwards to support Hamas under those circumstances?
We know. Michelle is terrified. Boo Hoo. MAGA!
The job has been done in California and Oregon and probably New York.
California is California, not America
Democrats are not losing control of the leftists among themselves, they have already lost all control of their own destiny as the leftists have become the ascendant faction, the tail wagging the dog. It is now the Democrat Socialist party, and should be so designated on the ballots.
If it were still just the Democrat party, RFK Jr. would be leading in the polls and pulling away. But that part of the “Big Tent” is now shredded and collapsed.
Zero chance of that happening. Democrats will sweep 2024 no matter how people vote.
There are no “Democrats’
The Democrat party is a loose coalition of a very diverse assortment of very specific agendas.
Black is one of the existential agendas. Pandering to the Black plantation is the most important task for Democrat party leaders. A relatively small loss of Black votes ends the Democrat party
Only war and death can stop them
The problem with the left is that they’re very focused when they’re attacking an existing order, but once it’s time to govern, they have no idea what the f*ck they’re doing.
Palestinians exist for the purpose of finishing Hitler’s Final Solution, so yes, supporting them is the same thing as seeking genocide of the Jews. I’d call that antisemitism at the very least.
If Democrats did everything the Left wants, it would nuke Israel, made pedophilia legal, turn over our sovereignty to China, make everyone eat bugs, and ban all forms of energy.
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