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Adam Johnson Profile picture
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Jul 26 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“Told you so” stuff is never useful but I think this exaggerates the extent to which the “tent” is really growing. Most of these statements from Dems are a combination of vague handwringing and calling for a ceasefire in the same manner Biden did which is “Hamas must surrender”
Anyone who isn’t, at a minimum, explicitly calling for a full arms embargo against Israel (not bullshit “offensive/defensive” carveouts) is not really joining any tent in any meaningful sense. Just engaging in PR ass covering
Looking Very Upset is not a political position

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Jul 25
NYT's morning newsletter parroting @PatrickKingsley's absurd and deliberately credulous "failure to plan" framing. It wasn't the open pronouncements by Israeli officials they were cutting off food, or the bombing of and propaganda against UNRWA, guys, they just neglected to PLAN! Image
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there is no "transitional authority" because (1) Palestinian militants haven't been defeated and cannot, by definition, be defeated absent ethnic cleansing. (2) Israel is the de facto authority in Gaza and they are committing genocide and believe starving people helps this end
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Jul 25
My sense is this is too optimistic. I think emaciated children is a bridge too far PR-wise. There’ll be pressure on Israel to allow the UN to do a fraction of whats needed, then it’ll return to the pre-March 2025 status quo and Dems will go back to ignoring/cheer leading genocide
If one reads the statements the demand isn’t an end to the genocide, or “war,” or an arms embargo or demand Trump compel a lasting ceasefire, it’s a return to the pre March 2025 status quo, a/k/a the NYT editorial board line demanding Washington Bomb Children On A Full Stomach
The Biden WH position, that of the NYT and Washington Post editorial board position, the position of Hillary Clinton, Jeffries, Schumer et al remains the far left of acceptable opinion: Israel Must Bomb Children On a Full Stomach
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Jul 20
I know the 2024 Dem pitch for Gaza was 10% less genocide but Trump’s been in office 6 mo’s, and accelerated the genocide for four, and the two most powerful Dems, Schumer and Jeffries haven’t issued a single criticism of Trump’s Gaza policy. Neither has Harris, Biden or Obama.
We have zero evidence of any institutional Dem opposition to Trump’s Gaza policy. At this point this can only be read as agreement. A letter proposed by Rep Tlaib opposing mass starvation in Gaza only garnered 18 Dems. 18. a LETTER. This means 239 democrats didn’t give a shit
I have no idea how Gaza will “play in 2028” but I think telling millions of liberals that caring Too Much—in any systemic way—about emaciated children on their timelines that theyre somehow Doing A Racism is sowing unprecedented amounts of cynicism with unforeseeable consequences
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Jul 17
I’m baffled as to what conspiracy they’re going for anymore. MAGA media is playing catch up trying to square the circle of whatever an increasingly senile Trump vomited out that day and I need a whiteboard to keep track of what the Deep State is supposedly doing now
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feel like if Trump just said “there’s nothing left in the Epstein case, it’s closed, of course Dems are going to imply what they want but what about Bill Gates and Clinton etc” it’d be done by now. But then he started breathlessly defending himself against allegations no one made
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Jul 16
This is where superficial generational discourse gets you: An AOC and Bernie-endorsed candidate wins and it’s somehow an indictment on Mamdani—who didnt endorse anyone and has nothing to do with the race. The similarities, like Weisman and Healy’s analysis, are purely superficial
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The NYT wants so bad Mamdani’s win to be Young Hip Gen Z Guy Does Vertical Camera Thing and nothing else. This is an ideological axiom they will just assert over and over again because if it’s not true they are forced to acknowledge a much deeper rot in the liberal establishment
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Jul 13
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There’s been 90000 of these billionaire funded “we just want to win” “drop liberal orthodoxy” “big tent” front projects launched in the last six months. More consulting grifts designed to push the party right under the auspices of Savvy Pragmatism
Definitely need to do a break down. So much Silicon Valley and billionaire money funneling into the same consult class losers to “energize” “hard nose” “youthful” democrats who can “win in Trump country” who will courageously defend crypto and Israel
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