The Eradicator Faction?

I am unusually fearful these days

Alan Dershowitz writes,

I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican.

The Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Last week all but seven Senate Democrats voted for an arms embargo against the Jewish state

I registered as a Republican around 2+ years ago, for a different reason: I wanted to vote against Donald Trump in Maryland’s Presidential primary. When instead he won the nomination, I wrote in Javier Milei in the general election. That said, if I had thought that my vote mattered, I would have voted for Mr. Trump over Ms. Harris.

What Dershowitz fears is what I call the Eradicator faction within the Democratic Party. I am not talking about all Democrats. But I see some prominent figures on the left as wanting to eradicate Israel abroad and eradicate the market economy at home.

I came up with Eradicator because we need a stronger term than just “Israel skeptics” or “market skeptics” to describe the most hard-edged faction among the Democrats. This faction is too adamant in its hatreds and dogmas to be called mere skeptics. You are an eradicator if you take the side of Hamas against Israel of the side of Cuba against the United States. There are stronger labels one can come up with to describe Eradicators, but I will refrain from using them.

I wish that my more reasonable progressive friends would think very hard about their alliance with Eradicators. I assume that moderates on the left would feel uncomfortable with the destruction of Israel or with America being turned into Cuba. But the Eradicator faction wants to work toward such outcomes.

Tablet Premium cites polling data from Echelon Insights.

a narrow majority of voters still have a favorable opinion of Israel—but that this is driven largely by supermajority support for Israel among Republicans over 50, with Democrats under 50 viewing Israel less favorably than they do China, Iran, or Venezuela.

Iran and its proxies are driven by a passion to destroy the state of Israel. The only thing that stops them from committing real genocide is that they lack the means to do so. If you think that I ought to believe otherwise, and that their goal is to live side by side with Israel in peace, please show your work.

Israel’s enemies’ words and actions all point to eradicating the Jewish presence in the Middle East. And there are hate crimes against Jews committed by Islamists in Europe and America every day.

On domestic policy, an Eradicator is someone who is convinced that free markets in America are a problem, and government taking over the economy is the solution. Mamdani is an Eradicator.

The UK has a an Eradicator faction, called the Green Party, that combines hatred of Israel with hatred of markets. Two months ago, it won a by-election in England’s Gorton and Denton district.

Here in the U.S., the Eradicators do not have their own party. They are a faction within the Democratic Party. And if the Democrats win this year’s mid-terms and/or the 2028 general election, the Eradicators will try to bully the moderate Democrats into submission. I fear that that they have good chances of succeeding, although the moderates will never say so. The moderates in Germany thought they were in control as late as April of 1933.

This is not a typical take from me, and I expect to get a lot of unsubscribes because of that. Ordinarily, I argue against taking an apocalyptic view of the potential consequences of an election. Ordinarily, I see both parties as equally flawed. And in my estimation the Republican Party’s flaws have tended to get worse rather than better in recent years. But right now, I am with Dershowitz. I would rather be criticizing bad Republican policies with Republicans in power than have to endure a takeover by the Eradicators.