The soft bigotry of Trump expectations

We've already forgotten the former - and maybe future - President's response to the Hamas attack against Israel.

Like many commentators, I’ve written a lot about the far-left response to the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Second World War, for several reasons:

1. People marching in the streets to celebrate antisemitic violence is a big deal, whether they’re carrying tiki torches and wearing MAGA hats or carrying Palestinian flags and wearing Birkenstocks;

2. Many of the most unhinged apologists for Hamas are the same people who’ve spent the last decade arguing that words are literal violence; and,

3. Most ominously, “settlers aren’t civilians” is one of these phrases like “Black people can’t be racist,” which was a laughable fringe belief until it’s suddenly everywhere.

On the flip side, it has been heartening to see thoughtful left-wingers, including commentators sympathetic to and even largely supportive of the Palestinian cause, fighting back against this illiberal, antisemitic, and frankly genocidal rhetoric.

I’m glad they recognize this is a potentially serious problem, and we have to…