Democratic leaders are failing the Mahmoud Khalil test - Trump is pushing a new McCarthyism. But Democrats helped get us here.
Democratic leaders are failing the Mahmoud Khalil test - Trump is pushing a new McCarthyism. But Democrats helped get us here.
Trump is pushing a new McCarthyism. But Democrats helped get us here.
President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.
If you've read American history books, there is absolutely nothing new about this.
But that's also a reason to be optimistic. It's happened before and it didn't last.
Democrats are the greater evil in this case, Republicans are openly vocal in their intents so we know what to expect from them. Democrats vocally oppose Republican actions, but end up supporting them and throwing their hands up claiming they were defenseless. Theyve turbo changed their ratchet effect the last several years.
Greater evil? One is being evil and the other is overly pragmatic.
Greater evil. Democrats are not pragmatic. They are enablers of right wing fascism and their ratchet effect ensures that it never slips back to something more progressive.
If it was good old trying to weed out the commies McCarthyism, I'd be all down for it. Now I ain't because it ain't communism that's the enemy.
I can't imagine you've read much about McCarthyism because it didn't take long for it to be many things that aren't communism. Labour unions and homosexuality were just a couple things that could get you on their radar, and merely being brought before a committee could get you fired. House Un-American Activities Committee sounds more like their job description and not what they were trying to stamp out.