tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post6101415942882641273..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Max Rose is My HeroDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-72482234580886333542019-02-12T19:18:39.325-08:002019-02-12T19:18:39.325-08:00>The left is “policed to the letter,” while the...>The left is “policed to the letter,” while the right is “treated with kid gloves.”<br /><br />I think the Jewish community *thinks* their policy is, "police extremists to the letter, treat the mainstream with kid gloves."<br /><br />What I think they're completely out of touch with is how, over the past 10 years or so, the distinction between mainstream and "extremist" (ie: so out there your own party expels you) has collapsed, first in the Republican Party (Ron Paul, Tea Party, birtherism, rise of Trumpism), now in the Democratic Party (rise of new social movements in second term of Obama, general rise of "woke left", Women's March, socialist movements in Trump era).<br /><br />Back in the day, Obama faced a bit of a scandal over his Reverend Wright, who spoke a bit like how the Women's March, Omar, et al now speak, in some respects. Obama basically threw Wright overboard, quite brutally, but as a matter of political necessity: part racism, part a general sense of obligation to discard "un-Presidential" associations. Norms and all that.<br /><br />No Democrat would do that today. Hell, if Reverend Wright was actually as much of a non-issue as I remember him being, no Democrat could even be faulted for failing to do that today. The expectation has shifted for what movement associations a politician has.<br /><br />But the Jewish community is five or more years behind, still crowing about "extremism" as if the "extremes" weren't the driving force in party primaries.Elihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15735590514064405705noreply@blogger.com