Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ‘philosophical divisions on Israel’ among Democrats to sink Biden’s campaign

Republicans have identified recent college protests against Israel’s war in Gaza as the core of an election campaign narrative of chaos that they hope can be used to sink Joe Biden’s presidency.

The approach was bluntly crystallised by Tom Cotton, the Republican senator Arkansas, in a recent television interview when he mocked the encampments that have sprung up in recent weeks as “little Gazas” and lambasted the president for a perceived failure to unequivocally denounce instances of antisemitism.

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    6 months ago

    Progressives rammed an ice pick through their own skulls several times over, by failing to endorse free expression. The same arguments they used(“Your words make us FEEL like this isn’t a Safe Space”) are now being employed by Tucker Carlson’s and some other loser named Prager’s congregations of cocksuckers