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.
I’ve been burned by too many promises like that to get my hopes up for a political party, but I’ll hear about it if they start acting like they want my support.
The fact that they haven’t started kicking out DINOs and corporate financiers bodes ill for the odds that we’ll see a face-turn.