Conservative: Why Moderate Dems Scapegoat Bibi

The left’s “anti-Israel litmus test is creeping into the mainstream” of Democratic politics, warns Commentary’s Seth Mandel , as “non-crazy Democrats” deal with how “the ‘genocide’ lie has gone from opinion to gospel” among much of the party’s base.

Running for cover, some “Democrats believe that if they criticize Netanyahu forcefully” over the war, “they can fool primary voters into thinking they are condemning Israel.”

But pro-Israel Dems have been trying this ever since Obama left office,” and jumped on it big when the Gaza war began.

“This, in other words, has been Democrats’ Plan A. If the party is already out of ideas” for escaping extremists’ censure, “the fate they fear is pretty much inevitable.”

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