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.
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.