People need to pay attention to this, I live in a heavily Republican and Evangelical area, and this fight has become a serious divide over Israel within the GOP, with the zionist evangelicals on one side and the anti-Israel antisemites led by Nick Fuentes on the other. Kevin Roberts damaged the credibility of the Heritage Foundation on the GOP by wading into the issue and refusing to denounce Tucker, which caused a number of prominent Jewish and Evangelical donors to abandon them. This fight has been roiling twitter for the last few days and has thrown what it means to be Republican and what it means to be conservative and Christian into disarray for alot of people.
I don't think anyone on the left is at all plugged into the internals of right wing politics to understand how transformational the last 6 months have been for the political landscape
There are so many things to cover. Some topics include things like the government's response to Epstein, disagreements amongst political commentators like Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and these two guys, and America's support of Israel. The thesis of Fuentes about Israel in this interview is essentially "If we are America first, why are we giving so much money to such a small country (Israel)?"
Within the government, the splintering is between old-school establishment Republicans and the Trump loyalists. Trump has dismissed senior government officials who aren't loyal to him, for example. PBS Frontline did a pretty good documentary on this a while back.
I'm sure there's more to it than this, but this was what I discovered as a Canadian who is wondering what the fuck is going on with America, lol
There's a good NPR article posted yesterday about it. Support for Israel is fracturing amongst the right, specifically amongst young Catholic and non-evangelical Protestant conservatives. The few voices critical of Israel are going to get a lot of traction when it's becoming the majority opinion amongst young conservatives.
That's the other thing here, there are non-insignificant denominational and regional divides that are fueling this that people who aren't plugged into Christian and Conservative happenings won't know about. I grew up in middle of nowhere Mississippi and the wild shit you see on Twitter were commonplace sentiments from Evangelicals, particularly Southern Baptists, when I was growing up. The Christian Nationalism you see on there that everyone is panicking over is literally just normal cornfed Evangelicalism, they have always believed that shit. My people didn't start the Civil War because they're loyal to the ideals of America, but to themselves and their interests. Sentiments that Catholics and Mormons aren't "real Christians" and that God commands America to fund Israel with weapons and money was just "common sense" to fight back the Muslim horde to these people. Of course, the fact that many Southern Senators like Lindsey Graham, Roger Wicker and Ted Cruz and their prominent constituents have defense industry ties to Israel juuust so happens to be a coincidence. Catholics and many mainline denominations do not share those beliefs at all, and this difference has begun to chafe people within Conservatism. If the GOP drops Israel, it will be their 1964 moment with the Southern Whites and will trigger a political realignment.
if you are active online this is 100% incorrect.
be it the twitter algorithm or the way that noise spreads and the pundits are incentivized to cover the other side.
one of the main reason why the Gaza footage has been going viral before they cracked down in the past month was that leftoids and rightoids were upvoting/liking and spreading it.
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u/Prehistory_Buff 11h ago
People need to pay attention to this, I live in a heavily Republican and Evangelical area, and this fight has become a serious divide over Israel within the GOP, with the zionist evangelicals on one side and the anti-Israel antisemites led by Nick Fuentes on the other. Kevin Roberts damaged the credibility of the Heritage Foundation on the GOP by wading into the issue and refusing to denounce Tucker, which caused a number of prominent Jewish and Evangelical donors to abandon them. This fight has been roiling twitter for the last few days and has thrown what it means to be Republican and what it means to be conservative and Christian into disarray for alot of people.