Is Israel Support Dividing The GOP?

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00:00Well internal fighting within the GOP is getting nasty and it all centers around US support for

00:08Israel. You've got avowed MAGA supporters accusing some Republicans of being and I quote seized by a

00:16brain virus and then you've got establishment Republicans accusing some MAGA supporters

00:22of being anti-Semites. So let's start with you first of all Shabos. Is unequivocal support for

00:30Israel dividing the GOP or is there something deeper going on? Well I guess it depends how

00:36you define unequivocal. I think support for Israel in the same way we support allies that strengthen

00:41American foreign policy whether it's Ukraine or Taiwan is certainly in America's best interest.

00:45The person who knows this the best is President Trump who's repeatedly stated that America first

00:50does not mean America alone. So I obviously support Israel the same way I support any American ally

00:55that advances Western hegemony in otherwise regressive regions. I will say the debate on Israel is run by

01:02bad faith actors. Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens are not interested in serious debates on

01:07foreign policy. They're interested in acquiescing to the lowest common denominator of our American

01:13political culture. And I was on Piers Morgan yesterday and I quoted Zoolander where I said I

01:18feel like I'm on crazy pills because I for example I campaigned for President Trump. I spoke at Trump

01:22rallies. I registered hundreds of voters. I traveled across the country to convince liberal American

01:27Jews to vote for President Trump. So Jewish Republicans they did our best to ensure that

01:32President Trump was re-elected. Nick Fuentes for example he said not only would he not be supporting

01:37President Trump in 2024 but he actually encouraged his own followers to go to Michigan and register

01:43voters to vote for Kamala Harris. So it's not that I don't think that these are individuals who are

01:48America first. Nick Fuentes doesn't think he's America first. He doesn't think he's a conservative.

01:52He's certainly not a Republican. And from a pragmatic political perspective if Republicans cater to the

01:57most radical elements of the base I am telling you as someone who left the Democratic Party because they

02:03were hijacked by the far left where Republicans will lose elections in the future because Americans

02:07reject extremism on both sides.