Here's my latest, drawing on previous research on Nixon, but also some new New York Times research. theconversation.com/58-years-of-...

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Israel has an election coming up in late October with an opposition poised to eject Israel's current prime minister. @forward.com columnist Rob Eshman is polite here when he says that Mamdani's fixation on Netanyhau is a distraction from the real story of how to change course.

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I give it 48 hours before the first tankies start blaming Platner’s political fall on “the Zionists,” AIPAC, the “Epstein Class,” Chuck Schumer, Israel, and “globalists.” As we all know, every disappointment in life is the work of one group only, and no one else has agency.

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This speaks to the mistake Platner diehards made in the first place: assuming he was indispensable to the cause thus requiring rationalization or dismissal of transgressions & red flags

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How is it "playing on their terrain" to show that the practice was always more complex that the majority opinion pretends to deny? This is not an appeal to original intention, understanding or public meaning. It says there is a long record of decisions that undermine any originalist riff.

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