The NY Times Magazine published a lengthy story today titled “How Oct. 7 Drove a Wedge Into the Democratic Party.” That is a fair summary of part of the article but if you keep reading it’s not just about how the wedge was introduced but about what it could mean for the progressive outliers in the squad who are facing reelection this year with a lot of pushback from the more moderate left.
Since Hamas killed around 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages, and Israel retaliated by shelling Gaza, leaving more than 26,000 dead, there has been a sense within the Democratic Party of a divide that cannot be bridged, an eruption of ill feeling that will not dissipate…
After the enormous George Floyd protests that swept across cities in the pandemic summer of 2020, the fervor around social-justice issues gradually waned. It has since surged back. To follow a pro-Palestinian march through…
