It took the 2nd most heavily funded House primary in US history to unseat a member of the squad. It came in 2nd only because the 1st was to unseat Jamaal Bowman.
The writing is on the wall, AIPAC’s and the pro-fascist Israel lobby’s days are numbered. Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.
Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy
I want to agree with you on that, but it’s pretty clear that promoting fascism is at least in the short-term very profitable. Plus the money they spend ousting anti-Isreal politicians means they are more likely to get US Military money, so they spend less on their own military, which frees up funds in order to… influence US politics. I don’t like it, but so far it appears to be an effective strategy
I’m not saying that they’ll run out of money, I’m saying that spending in a campaign has diminishing returns. In a single district there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads. Summer Lee was also critical of Israel, but they didn’t even bother to try to unseat her because she wasn’t vulnerable.
Regardless of their immediate success, the issue was that they had to do this at all. They didn’t used to have to spend much to unseat a candidate they didn’t like, and now they do. The campaigns they used to unseat both didn’t even attack them over Israel, which says a lot about how the Democrat base feels about the issue. There were also some squad members, like Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel but not vulnerable enough for AIPAC to even bother. Money can only go so far.
It’s not a question of how much money they have to burn, it’s a question of how effective the money they spend will be. In a single district, there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads.
Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.
Money for us “normal folk” and AIPAC are completely different things. AIPAC can throw as much money around as they like. It’s like claiming Louis Vuitton destroys millions of dollars in property every time they burn their unsold merchandise
It took the 2nd most heavily funded House primary in US history to unseat a member of the squad. It came in 2nd only because the 1st was to unseat Jamaal Bowman.
The writing is on the wall, AIPAC’s and the pro-fascist Israel lobby’s days are numbered. Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.
I want to agree with you on that, but it’s pretty clear that promoting fascism is at least in the short-term very profitable. Plus the money they spend ousting anti-Isreal politicians means they are more likely to get US Military money, so they spend less on their own military, which frees up funds in order to… influence US politics. I don’t like it, but so far it appears to be an effective strategy
I’m not saying that they’ll run out of money, I’m saying that spending in a campaign has diminishing returns. In a single district there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads. Summer Lee was also critical of Israel, but they didn’t even bother to try to unseat her because she wasn’t vulnerable.
Takes a lot to look at AIPAC successfully defeating two of their highest priority targets and giving it a negative spjn for AIPAC.
Regardless of their immediate success, the issue was that they had to do this at all. They didn’t used to have to spend much to unseat a candidate they didn’t like, and now they do. The campaigns they used to unseat both didn’t even attack them over Israel, which says a lot about how the Democrat base feels about the issue. There were also some squad members, like Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel but not vulnerable enough for AIPAC to even bother. Money can only go so far.
We would need to compare how much they spend to how much they have, or how much they gain on the regular, before we could make that assertion.
It’s not a question of how much money they have to burn, it’s a question of how effective the money they spend will be. In a single district, there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads.
Money for us “normal folk” and AIPAC are completely different things. AIPAC can throw as much money around as they like. It’s like claiming Louis Vuitton destroys millions of dollars in property every time they burn their unsold merchandise