Is Anti-Semitism Endangering the Democratic Party?
A cautionary tale from across the pond.
Way back in 2016, there were very few people willing to go out on a limb and predict Donald Trump would become the next President of the United States.
Pundits, media personalities, betting oddsmakers, pollsters, tech companies, media outlets, corporations, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Hanks; no one expected Trump to actually win the Republican nomination, let alone the election.
There were a few lone voices crying out from the wilderness; insisting pollsters weren’t being accurate in their polling methods, telling anecdotal stories about the lack of support for Hillary Clinton on the ground, eyeing the efficacy of Trump’s then-unrivaled social media mastery in askance.
With growing alarm, a tiny handful of Democrats at the local and national level started reading the writing on the wall, and they didn’t like it one bit.
After Brexit shook the world, these lone voices started up a real clamor. After all, no one who was anyone thought Brexit had a chance, either. Brexit surprised the British left quite as much as the election of Donald Trump shocked progressives in the U.S.
Possibly more.
What followed was years of finger pointing, interspersed with attempts, by hook or by…