#Trump sublimation

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I'M With The Outlaw And The Hillbilly, Trump Vance 2024 SVG

[glitchyvisions]

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*s u b l i m e*

[nicklloydnow]

“About a decade ago, I ventured my opinion that the adult multitudes queueing for superhero movies were potentially an indicator of emotional arrest, which could have worrying political and social implications. Since at that time Brexit, Donald Trump and fascist populism hadn’t happened yet, my evidently crazy diatribe was largely met with outrage from the fan community, some of whom angrily demanded I be extradited to the US and made to stand trial for my crimes against superhumanity – which I felt didn’t necessarily disprove my allegations.

Ten years on, let me make my position clear: I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement. Perhaps this statement still requires some breaking down.

(…)

Quite liking comics, aged 14 I thus became a comics fan with my discovery of British fandom, which was then still gummy-eyed and fresh out of the egg. The first convention I attended in London, in the basement rooms of a Southampton Row hotel in 1969, was tiny and inspiring. The attenders barely totalled a three-digit number, almost all of them some few years short of legal drinking age. The comics companies, having no monetary interest in a handful of penniless teenagers, went blissfully unrepresented, and the only industry celebrity that I recall was the sublime and sweetly unassuming genius Frank Bellamy, passing Dan Dare or Garth originals around, appearing wonderstruck that anyone had heard of him. The only thing uniting the assembly was its passion for an undervalued storytelling medium and, for the record, the consensus verdict of the gathered 15-year-old cognoscenti was that costumed musclemen were the main obstacle preventing adult audiences from taking comics seriously.

Of that hardly-a-hundred schoolkids, office boys and junior librarians, the great majority were actively involved in their pursuit, publishing or contributing to a variety of – for the most part – poorly duplicated fanzines, or else going on to work professionally in the field, such as Kevin O’Neill, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse or Jim Baikie, all of whom were downstairs at the Waverley hotel that weekend, keen to elevate the medium that they loved, rather than passively complain about whichever title or creator had particularly let them down that month. Of course, this was the 1960s and the same amateur energy seemed to be everywhere, spawning an underground press, Arts Lab publications and a messy, marvellous array of poetry or music fanzines that were the material fabric of that era’s counterculture; flimsy pamphlets as important and innovative today as they were then, although considerably more expensive, trust me.

Soon thereafter, caught up in the rush of adolescent life, I drifted out of touch with comic books and their attendant fandom, only returning eight years later when I was commencing work as a professional in that fondly remembered field, to find it greatly altered. Bigger, more commercial, and although there were still interesting fanzines and some fine, committed people, I detected the beginnings of a tendency to fetishise a work’s creator rather than simply appreciate the work itself, as if artists and writers were themselves part of the costumed entertainment. Never having sought a pop celebrity relationship with readers, I withdrew by stages from the social side of comics, acquiring my standing as a furious, unfathomable hermit in the process. And when I looked back, after an internet and some few decades, fandom was a very different animal.

An older animal for one thing, with a median age in its late 40s, fed, presumably, by a nostalgia that its energetic predecessor was too young to suffer from. And while the vulgar comic story was originally proffered solely to the working classes, soaring retail prices had precluded any audience save the more affluent; had gentrified a previously bustling and lively cultural slum neighbourhood. This boost in fandom’s age and status possibly explains its current sense of privilege, its tendency to carp and cavil rather than contribute or create. I speak only of comics fandom here, but have gained the impression that this reflexive belligerence – most usually from middle-aged white male conservatives – is now a part of many fan communities. My 14-year-old grandson tells me older Pokémon aficionados can display the same febrile disgruntlement. Is this a case of those unwilling to outgrow childhood enthusiasms, possibly because these anchor them to happier and less complex times, who now feel they should be sole arbiters of their pursuit?

There are, of course, entirely benign fandoms, networks of cooperative individuals who quite like the same thing, can chat with others sharing the same pastime and, importantly, provide support for one another in difficult times. These healthy subcultures, however, are less likely to impact on society in the same way that the more strident and presumptuous fandoms have managed. Unnervingly rapidly, our culture has become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in. Our entertainments may be cancelled prematurely through an adverse fan reaction, and we may endure largely misogynist crusades such as Gamergate or Comicsgate from those who think “gate” means “conspiracy”, and that Nixon’s disgrace was predicated on a plot involving water, but this is hardly the full extent to which fan attitudes have toxified the world surrounding us, most obviously in our politics.

Elections that decide the fate of millions are conducted in an atmosphere more suited to evictions on I’m a Celebrity …, in which contestants who are insufficiently amusing are removed from office. Saleability, not substance, is the issue. Those who vote for Donald Trump or Boris Johnson seem less moved by policy or prior accomplishment than by how much they’ve enjoyed the performances on The Apprentice or Have I Got News for You. And throughout the UK, we’re now familiar with what a Stephen Yaxley-Lennon fan convention looks like.

An enthusiasm that is fertile and productive can enrich life and society, just as displacing personal frustrations into venomous tirades about your boyhood hobby can devalue them. Quite liking something is OK. You don’t need the machete or the megaphone.

Candidly, for my part, readers would have always been more than sufficient.”

[thebpdcrybaby]

My name is Sadie and I'm 32 years old with autism and borderline personality disorder. I am not in treatment because I have Medicare for insurance and there are 4+ year waiting lists for therapy. I am on three medications- Effexor, Risperidone, Wellbutrin. I have severe depression, general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, adjustment disorder, unspecified mood disorder, auditory processing disorder. I have binge eating disorder and struggle with self harm. I'm obese and have always struggled with my weight. I live on my own in an apartment complex, where my mother and five year old autistic son also live. She is raising him now because of my worsening mental health. I have been in a relationship with my son's father for 9 years, it has been a lot of ups and downs. He is my FP (favorite person). He just moved to Arizona due to unfortunate circumstances, so we are now maintaining a long distance relationship. I'm on social security income and live in Pennsylvania, USA. I have heavy suicide ideations. My BPD type is "self destructive." My autism is between level 1 and level 2.

Physical illnesses: morbid obesity, PCOS, hypothyroidism, sciatica on right side plus moderate back pain from spinal degeneration, constant tachycardia

- she/her/hers

- LGBT ally

- extreme leftist

- socialist, anti capitalism

- non religious with interest in The Satanic Temple

- 420 friendly

- Daddy issues

- no ableism

- no fatphobia

- no kink shaming

- no homophobia

- no transphobia

- no racists/Nazis

- no Republicans/Trump supporters

Horror movie fanatic.

Music is life.

Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, HIM, Linkin Park, Grey Daze, Jack Off Jill, Nirvana, Green Day, Yungblud, Melanie Martinez, Lana Del Rey, Halsey, Buckcherry, Korn, Pearl Jam, Fuel, Pink Floyd, John Mellencamp, She Wants Revenge, Oasis, Pixies, Maroon 5, Sick Puppies, Sixx:A.M., Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Third Eye Blind, Thirty Seconds to Mars, AFI, Violent Femmes, Rise Against, The Struts, In This Moment, The Pretty Reckless, Bring Me The Horizon, Evanescence, Shinedown, Hollywood Undead, Daughtry, The 69 Eyes, Mindless Self Indulgence, Filter, Rob Zombie, Lords of Acid, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Papa Roach, Seether, Puddle of Mudd, Bush, Creed, P!nk, Rancid, The Doors, Radiohead, Gin Blossoms, Sex Pistols, My Chemical Romance, Tool, Hole, Good Charlotte, Sublime, Machine Gun Kelly, Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift

My comforts and hyperfixations: Joker, Pete Davidson, Yungblud, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, HIM/heartagrams, Bam Margera, The Twilight Zone, The Golden Girls, Home Improvement sitcom, Art the Clown, Jack Skellington, Hello Kitty, Rugrats, the 90s, cemeteries, true crime, splatterpunk, gore, slashers, collecting DVDs and Blu-ray, reading books and Kindle, "alternative" goth, punk, emo, The Sims, casual mobile gaming, poetry, Tate Langdon from American Horror Story season one, American Horror StorIES show on Hulu, Kurt Cobain, Chester Bennington, The Virgin Suicides, Girl Interrupted, Pearl, Euphoria, girlblogging, Sylvia Plath, Franz Kafka

They call me Cry Baby but I don't fuckin care...

Hail to the BPD king, Pete.

[abigailspinach]

Multiple outlets reported that Republican leadership has implored the conference to quit attacking Harris in racist and gendered ways, encapsulated by the shorthand of calling her a “DEI hire.”

Republican lawmakers…aren’t listening.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) today: “Intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel,” she said, adding: “I think she was a DEI hire. And I think that that’s what we’re seeing, and I just don’t think that they have anybody else.”

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) Monday: “The incompetency level is at an all-time high in Washington. The media propped up this president, lied to the American people for three years, and then dumped him for our DEI vice president.”

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) over the weekend: “A lot of Democrats feel they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background.”

Bonus from former Trump administration official and now Fox Business commentator Larry Kudlow: “Her whole history is DEI.”

We’ve been talking about this since way back when Harris was elevated (ha). Racism and sexism are baked into the MAGA movement; “fuck your feelings” and the freedom to express those bigotries are part of its appeal. Trying to get its members to sublimate those beliefs for a general electorate is a toothpaste/tube situation.

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts on Trump picking a writer as VP?

I haven't read Vance's book, so I don't know if he's a good writer, but I've heard it's a reasonably effective memoir, written mostly before he had this level of political ambition.

I just read his personal essay about his conversion to Catholicism today. I am cautious around writing that proclaims its humility and thereby forces me to search for its will to power; this is why I proclaim my will to power and allow you, but only if you want, to discover my humility, my debility, my "male vulnerability." Other than that, the essay is most moving and persuasive where it refutes the simplistic materialism of the likes of analytic philosophers and Sam Harris, and where he details his real spiritual experiences (I believe him). His critique of the left's superficially compassionate but actually cruel attitude toward the poor ("like sympathy for a zoo animal") is also exactly right. But I find it overly solemn, anxious, barely concealing the abandonment of his natal Protestantism for its plebeian or peasant quality—no less part of his desire for acceptance by an elite than was his earlier atheism. I was raised in plebeian or peasant Catholicism myself, on the other hand, which has nothing at all to do with the authorities he cites, like René Girard and St. Augustine. I look slightly askance on adult converts drawn in by the theology and morality. It has always seemed to me that the point of Catholicism—and I mean this much more religiously and much less blasphemously than it sounds—is the architecture and the incense, the barely sublimated sex and the eros of death. But I also love, as an outsider, the reckless, almost doom-seeking individualism of certain strains of Protestantism, some of them laundered as atheism. Since these seem to me to be the point of America, I am wary of overly intellectual Catholics and social democrats, their philosophies literally reeking of the over-crowded warrens of 19th-century Europe, moralistically tut-tutting about it. His second long quotation from Augustine gives me a chill, not in a good way. "[I]n his own affairs let everyone with impunity do what he will in company with his own family, and with those who willingly join him," our theologian jeers. Yes, Bishop, that's the American dream. Why not be a climate-doomer de-growther flinging soup in a museum with an attitude like that? The solution to poverty is abundance.

Possibly more significant for practical purposes, however, is Vance's tie to the literary-philosophical network around the Silicon Valley dissidents: Yarvin, BAP, and their associated publications and social media presences. (This is a good time to revisit James Pogue's Vanity Fair piece on the new right from 2022.) As Walter Kirn observed yesterday, that makes this election different from the last two. The last two were organized around the force of Trump's personality as he tried to hold together a fraying and fracturing Republican coalition of "provincial capital" (the proverbial boat dealer), the (mostly but not entirely) white working class, and the old Reagan Republican business constituencies of defense and energy, even as finance defected to the Democrats, while entertainment, academia, and intelligence pursued total war against their almost undefended reactionary enemy. The belligerent entrance of Musk and Andreessen into this election on Trump's side as representatives of big tech, with Vance as the political figurehead of big tech's literary and philosophical vanguard wing, makes it a much more even and generally significant contest: a true class war between incumbent and emergent elites. Literature has played no small part in this class war, as so many now widely-read writers and thinkers, love them or hate them, have resigned from the old left-liberal consensus. I don't mean to sound excessively neutral on the subject, but I belong to neither of the contending classes, and neither is at all democratic. I'm still not totally sure how the emergent elites' values are connected to a downbeat puritanical Augustinian Catholicism either, but since it seems to have everything to do with the aforesaid René Girard, we are still in the realm of literary theory if not literature.

In any case, the service of literature to any political faction or project should be the taming of its worser tendencies and the opening of its members to dialogue, irony, sympathy, and fresh perspectives. I will be told this is too idealistic.

[agentrouka-blog]

I find it hilarious that ASOIAF fans are just soooo into the "willful" female characters who aren't "Subservient to the Patriarchy(tm)" but the minute Catelyn decides to be a little "willful" herself and basically decides that she will feed, house, and cloth Jon as per her husband's request, but won't mother him beyond that all of a sudden she's this evil demon that is the Worst Person Ever? I thought we loved the bratty willful types that don't want to fulfill their patriarchal duties? Like people in this fandom shit on traditionally feminine characters who don't fight gender norms (lmao) but Catelyn was supposed to just sit their and take the utter humiliation of Ned not only bringing home his presumed bastard son but then telling Cat she had to raise him among her trueborn children (which is something that is never done for the most obvious reasons).

Pretty sure the logic is that Catelyn is obligated to sublimate her own interest within their society for the benefit of a “fellow victim”, whose victimization “trumps” hers because he is a child. Even if her “morally correct” action of making Jon feel welcome essentially takes the form of completely submitting to patriarchy because it ultimately benefits the patriarch himself the most for her to more than tolerate Jon’s presence. No interpersonal conflict bothers Ned’s peace of mind, and when it doubt one of his own children inherits in any case. Good job, saintly wife. 

There is no way Catelyn can try to benefit herself that won’t see her condemned in some way, because their society pits her against a child very deliberately. There is no way to stand up for herself that doesn’t materially worsen her situation. You cannot be “willful” here in a way that harms patriarchy more than it harms you or your kids, the system always wins. 

People can’t grasp that GRRM is critiquing the patriarchy precisely by showing us a catch 22. There is no “correct” path here for Catelyn, nor for Jon. It’s either self-denial or infringing on someone else’s legitimate self-interest - you have to be a saint or you’re a moral failure. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature of the concept of bastardy. It removes the burden of consequences from the patriarch.

The only ones who defy patriarchy in this aspect are people like the Mormont ladies, who let the line of succession continue through the maternal line with nary a husband in sight. And they do it with the - as of now unexplained (!) - tolerance or blessing of their society. Probably because Bear Island is both strategically important in repelling the ironborn and because it’s not the most attractive place to try and send someone who’s not a local. And only after the male line was unexpectedly erased by Jeor taking the black before Jorah abandoned ship fleeing the law. And because the Mormont ladies are masculine-coded by default, being warriors themselves. A special case that is treated as an exception by their still very very very patriarchal society.

[brightquang]

FULL SPEECH: Trump and Hung Cao visit Vietnamese community in Virginia.

As we, the American people and super sublime American community standards, remember the Vietnam War which included General attorney's Robert Kennedy came to Vietnam and he declared, " South Vietnam must win against international communists." In the meanwhile, the US Congress enacted H.R. 7885 Pub. L. Approved December 16, 1963, after President Kennedy had ordered to assassinate Ngo Dinh Diem on November 1, 1963. Which is why Act's H.R. 7885 has not ratified yet by the Congress of Vietnam because the United States has not only respected sovereign Vietnam but also had endorsed the right to self-determination of the Vietnamese people which is why the Act's 7885 has just enacted 16 December 1963, 11: am so President Kennedy quickly sent his American Armed Forces to Vietnam.In addition to the 22 Chapter Foreign Claims Act  which the Department of Justice requests for anyone who claims to be a prisoner of war, they must register before two years. On the other hand, Article Third of the US Constitution had been approved by sovereign foreign nations- and therefore, the American Ambassadors have the right to sign bilateral treaties with foreign nations. That is why the American Ambassadors have self-torn all bilateral treaties to contort the US Constitution without having sentenced crime fraudulently. Bright Quang

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Stands For america Png, Fight Trump shooting Png

[empirearchives]

When Napoleon died in 1821, Alexander Pushkin memorialized him in a poem titled “Napoleon”:

The wondrous destiny is ended,

The mighty light is quench’d and dead;

In storm and darkness hath descended

Napoleon’s sun, so bright and dread.

The captive King hath burst his prison—

The petted child of Victory;

And for the Exile hath arisen

The dawning of Posterity.

O thon, of whose immortal story

Earth aye the memory shall keep,

Now, ‘neath the shadow of thy glory

Best, rest, amid the lonely deep!

A grave sublime …. nor nobler ever

Couldst thou have found …. for o’er thine urn

The Nations’ hate is quench’d for ever,

And Glory’s beacon-ray shall burn.

There was a time thine eagles tower’d

Resistless o’er the humbled world;

There was a time the empires cower’d

Before the bolt thy hand had hurl’d:

The standards, thy prond will obeying,

Flapp’d wrath and woe on every wind

A few short years, and thou wert laying

Thine iron yoke on human kind.

And France, on glories vain and hollow,

Had fixed her frenzy-glance of flame—

Forgot sublimer hopes, to follow

Thee, Conqueror, thee—her dazzling shame

Thy legions’ swords with blood were drunken—

All sank before thine echoing tread;

And Europe fell—for sleep was sunken,

The sleep of death—upon her head.

Thou mightst have judged us, but thou wouldst not!

What dimm’d thy reason’s piercing light,

That Russian hearts thou understoodst not,

From thine heroic spirit’s height?

Moscow’s immortal conflagration

Foreseeing not, thou deem’dst that we

Would kneel for peace, a conquer’d nation—

Thou knew’st the Russ …. too late for thee!

Up, Russia! Queen of hundred battles,

Remember now thine ancient right!

Blaze, Moscow!—Far shall shine thy light!

Lo! other times are dawning o’er us:

Be blotted out, our short disgrace!

Swell, Russia, swell the battle chorus!

War! is the watchword of our race

Lo! how the baffled leader seizeth,

With fetter’d hands, his Iron Crown—

A dread abyss his spirit freezeth!

Down, down he goes, to ruin down!

And Europe’s armaments are driven,

Like mist, along the blood-stain’d snow—

That snow shall melt ‘neath summer’s heaven.

With the last footstep of the foe.

Twas a wild storm of fear and wonder,

When Europe woke and burst her chain;

The accursed race, like scatter’d thunder,

After the tyrant fled amain.

And Nemesis a doom hath spoken,

The Mighty hears that doom with dread:

The wrongs thou’st done shall now be wroken,

Tyrant, upon thy guilty head!

Thou shalt redeem thy usurpation,

Thy long career of war and crime,

In exile’s eating desolation,

Beneath a far and stranger clime.

And oft the midnight sail shall wander

By that lone isle, thy prison-place,

And oft a stranger there shall ponder,

And o’er that stone a pardon trace,

Where mused the Exile, oft recalling

The well-known clang of sword and lance.

The yells, Night’s icy car appalling;

His own blue sky—the sky of France;

Where, in his loneliness forgetting

His broken sword, his ruin’d throne,

With bitter grief, with vain regretting.

On his fair Boy he mused alone.

But shame, and curses without number,

Upon that reptile head be laid,

Whose insults now shall vex the slumber

Of him—that sad discrowned shade!

No! for his trump the signal sounded,

Her glorious race when Russia ran;

His hand, ‘mid strife and battle, founded

Eternal liberty for man!

Edinburgh Magazine, 1845, July issue

[slowthunders]

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╰┈➤ [BOOKS] - the master and the margarita. the haunting of hill house. rebel heart: an american rock and roll journey. i'm with the band. the naked lunch. house of spirits. faithfull: an autobiography. salem's lot. fall to pieces. daisy jones & the six. everybody loves our town. please kill me. meet me in the bathroom. up and down with the rolling stones.

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╰┈➤ [SOCIAL MEDIA] - instagram and discord, i'm as slowthunders too!

╰┈➤ [ARTISTS/BANDS] - alice in chains. britney spears. green day. roxy music. alanis morissette. the rolling stones. lana del rey. soundgarden. pink floyd. marianne faithfull. sabrina carpenter. prince. hole. stone temple pillots. inxs. black sabbath. divinyls. the velvet underground. avril lavigne. lou reed. nine inch nails. the stooges. mc5. elvis presley. the clash. lady gaga. the smiths. television. mother love bone. the dandy warhols. dolly parton. bobbie gentry. mark lanegan. cky. whitney houston. blink-182. korn. the risin' sun. cheap trick. the who. combo musical los caquis. the moody blues. led zeppelin. sly and the family stone. mandy moore. nelly furtado. deftones. amy winehouse. blur. sublime. the cult. jimi hendrix. oasis. marc bolan. pearl jam. mariah carey. kylie minogue. robbie williams. audioslave. roxette. faith no more. janis joplin. nancy sinatra. the allman brothers band. gram parsons. johnny cash. waylon jennings. lil 'kim. bob dylan. beyoncé. mad season. pearl jam. fleetwood mac. the doors. ratt. charli xcx. mitski. pantera. joni mitchell.

╰┈➤ [FILMS] - moulin rouge!. the love witch. x. singles. say anything. the bling ring. beauty and the beast. beauty and the beast: an enchanted christmas. scream. home alone. babylon. performance. daisies. the secret garden. tangled. ten things i hate about you. my scene jammin' in jamaica. the lost boys. the craft. mean girls. casino. don't look now. paris, texas. walk the line. a nightmare on elm street. maxxxine. the breakfast club. trainspotting. almost famous. rocketman. the rocky horror picture show. practical magic. barbie. bram stoker's dracula. the exorcist. the panic in needle park. goodfellas. the shinning. once upon a time in hollywood. texas chainsaw massacre

╰┈➤ [COMFORT PALS] - hello kitty, spottie dottie. keroppi. pochaco. minnie mouse. psyduck. eevee. bulbasaur. winnie the pooh. eeyore

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[hologramcowboy]

The question is completely irrelevant, just came in my mind while reading something. How does the world remember an artist? Is it only for their art? Their work? Does their personal life leave a scratch in their biography on a long term? Or people even celebrate the atrocities of their character once the man is famous enough?

I think the biggest stars are the one who have one specific quality: humanity. I am talking about artists of all types and walks of life, they create a legacy through their art that transcends their being and they do it with great humanity, something a lot of celebrities nowadays are lacking.

As for people celebrating “atrocities”, just look at Trump’s fans, no matter how many crazy, cruel things Trump says or does they still celebrate him as if he was the second coming of Christ. You also see it in Jensen’s rabid AA fans, who only want to perceive what’s perfect and consider anything else evil. That’s not okay, people, not for anyone. Absolutely no one is perfect and having a one sided view is so, so, so dangerous. Weak willed people usually mold themselves to mediocre characters and out them on pedestals.

The stars I speak of could never live in a world where people only approve of them because they are true artists, true geniuses of their craft.

A celebrity’s personal life has a smaller bearing on their legacy. For me, I mostly remember those who are sublime in their art and I appreciate their deep inner work and dedication and yet it’s that powerful humanity that impacts me the most.

[mightyflamethrower]

Bidtches from hell man the podium.

Three weeks ago, the media marveled at the meltdown within the Republican Party over the House Speaker self-imposed disaster. Now that the House GOP has managed to stop shooting themselves in the foot, however, the potential for a collapse of the coalition has suddenly become more acute across the aisle. Will Democrats split and collapse over the war Hamas launched on Israel?

As Molly Ball writes for the Wall Street Journal, right now the battle between progressives and liberals, and Jews and everyone else in the Democrat coalition, looks far more serious and much more difficult to resolve:

To many on the left, the Israel-Hamas war is spurring what feels like a permanent rupture, when previously sublimated differences become impossible to ignore and everyone must choose sides. The weeks since the Hamas attacks have riven the liberal coalition, pitting erstwhile allies against each other as ugly accusations fly in both directions. From the halls of power in Washington to street protests and social media, progressives find themselves at odds with those they once saw as kindred spirits. Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates describe a feeling of disillusionment as relationships fracture and harsh words are exchanged. The result, many predict, could be a breach that splits Democrats for a generation with untold political consequences.

Indeed it could, and it appears that may be exactly what progressives want. The hard Left, led by its Hamas Caucus, wants to force Democrats to either kneel to their election muscle by abandoning Israel and the Jews, or face ruin in 2024. The Muslims in the Democrat coalition are not even being subtle about it either, as Ball points out, declaring outright that they have captured the youth vote that Democrats desperately need:

“If you are Arab-American, Muslim-American or Palestinian, you feel like you don’t matter, you feel invisible,” said Waleed Shahid, a progressive strategist and former spokesman for the Justice Democrats, which has supported the progressive Congress members known as the squad in primaries against more centrist Democrats. “If you are advocating at all that Palestinian and Israeli lives should be treated equally, there’s a feeling that the party doesn’t care about you at all,” he said. The result, Shahid warned, might be that a president already struggling to ignite the enthusiasm of young and minority voters loses them completely—a recent Gallup poll found Biden losing 7 percentage points of support with voters under 35 in the past month, he noted—or that the party splinters as it did in the Vietnam War era. Others have drawn parallels to the left’s split over Soviet communism in the 1950s.

Note the presence of the Justice Democrats — the socialist group that backed the Squad and members like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They have already had an outsize impact on the broader Democrat coalition, and it’s not just the Justice Democrats threatening to flex muscles at the ballot box. A group called the National Muslim Democratic Council demanded  yesterday that Joe Biden force Israel into a cease-fire, or else have Muslims work against Democrats in battleground states in 2024:

“It has become evident that our voices are being ignored, but our votes will not be. Simply put, as Gaza turns red, so could crucial battleground states,” the council said in a letter Monday to the White House and Democratic Party. “Your administration’s unconditional support, encompassing funding and armaments, has played a significant role in perpetuating the violence that is causing civilian casualties and has eroded trust in voters who previously put their faith in you,” the group also wrote. “We will mobilize increased voter turnout to make our voices heard,” the council also wrote. It added that Michigan, a swing state with a large Muslim population that went for former President Donald Trump in 2016, went for Biden by 2.6% in 2020. “We emphasize the significance of Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, where many of our voters reside,” the group also said.

There’s just one little problem with this threat, which is that Muslims only make up a population that’s half that of Jews in this country, and Jews vote more often and reliably. This may not be an all-or-nothing in either group — some Muslim voters no doubt abhor what took place in Israel, while some Jews may want Israel to stand down — but among both groups, it’s fair to assume diametrically opposed positions.

Which means that Democrats may have to choose which demo to cut loose. On those terms, the Hamas Caucus and the NMDC will clearly lose. Jewish Democrats vote more reliably with the party, held fundraise and organize more and for longer, and Israel is more popular with the broader electorate than Hamas will ever be.

Besides, Jewish voters spurned by Democrats in this situation may not necessarily thunder over to the GOP, but they certainly know the GOP would welcome them if they did, especially on the issue of Israel vs Hamas. The NMDC has no place else to go, except maybe the Greens. If they don’t know that yet, they’ll learn it the hard way soon enough.

That doesn’t make the threat entirely empty. In a sense, this parallels the GOP’s House Speaker fight. No party dominates in the US, and elections run closer than ever. That gives fringe factions outsize leverage within these fragile coalitions, which is something that is somewhat new in the American political experience. Parliamentary systems deal with these factions by having separate parties, holding elections, and then seeing which leading party can form a governing majority. The American two-party federalist system manages the faction fights within their tents before elections and then see who wins at election time. It’s still the same process, and in these closely divided times, a renegade faction can spell disaster for the party facing an internecine fight.

Even beyond all of the electoral politics, however, is an issue of core values. Israel is the clearest parallel in the Middle East to the same classically liberal values we hold in the US, especially when it comes to self-determination, diversity, and civil rights. Hamas’ charter promises nothing but a brutal theocratic tyranny modeled on its sponsor Iran, a genocide of Jews, and forced submission to Islam for everyone else.

Is it really so difficult for Democrats to choose which side to support?

Scratch a progressive deep enough and an anti-semite will pop out every time