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The Netanyahu Playbook
April 10, 2019 at 9:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/10/netanyahu-playbook-offers-warnings-to-democrats/
"SNIP....
Roger Cohen: His victory contains a warning for any Democrat still imagining that the 2020 election will bring an easy victory over Donald Trump. The Netanyahu playbook will be President Trumps next year. Gather nationalist and religious voters in your camp, add in a strong economy, dose with fear, sprinkle with strongman appeal, inject a dash of racism and victory is yours whatever indictments are looming.
Its not that this could happen. It will happen, absent some decisive factor to upend the logic of it. Netanyahu is savvier than Trump, but they share a shrewd assessment of how to control and manipulate the politics of spectacle, as well as a fierce determination to stay out of jail. They campaign ugly.
Stephen Collinson: President Trump is celebrating Benjamin Netanyahus Israeli election victory like its his own and in many ways, it is.
.....SNIP"
elleng
(131,459 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)and we are a much more diverse country.
Israeli youth are right wing and deeply religious. Bibi won them 2:1.
It is time to cut off their aid. 4 billion a year can do much good here at home.
Takket
(21,729 posts)Drumpf is a fucking idiot, but Miller's "savvy" matches Bibi's. the battle for 2020 will make 2016 look like a picnic
Mosby
(16,425 posts)Is to not fragment the liberal/progressive party, we only have power when we stick together.
Bibi won with something like 29% of the electorate.
Behind the Aegis
(54,074 posts)Sadly, it is falling of deaf ears in many places. Of course, this is just more meat for the haters.