A Pew Research Center poll released last year, for example, found that 18 percent of Democrats had a favorable view of the Israeli government, while 77 percent of Democrats viewed it unfavorably.
It appears that even liberal Zionism has lost a lot of support. Committing a genocide tends to do that, even if you are the ”most democratic and LGBT-friendly country in the Middle East”. Hell that doesn’t even capture the full reality, they’re more progressive than the west as they’ve been a haven for MAPs for decades!
Frankly I don’t think Shapiro is a serious contender (outside of donors loving him), even if he weren’t a supporter of a the genocidal entity. I mostly wanted to share this with you because of the final paragraph
“The progressive, populist movement has the bully pulpit right now even if they’re just 20 percent of the party,” the donor said. “That’s resonating everywhere. And the fact of the matter is moderates like Shapiro are out of vogue.“
Itll be interesting to see how they try to frame running yet another unlikeable, unpopular, and fundamentally anti working class ghoul. And they will do it. Trump has given them the leash to do it.
My personal opinion is they want to run Newsom but he’s toxic in red states, I don’t think a few more Ben Shapiro podcast appearances will change that.