I am just destroyed by this. I genuinely had a little faith in humanity that people wouldn't fall for this bullshit but I guess I sorely was mistaken.
Laitmer is a conservative, racist piece of shit who is going to take over Manchin's job of fucking things up for progressives. Fucking hell this sucks.
To top it off, Israel just successfully dropped a political nuke on a critic and will likely have everyone running scared in the future.
You can abuse your position as a holdout and potentially fuck everything up in either chamber. Bills require passage in both chambers... but I'm sure you knew that.
I just hope there are enough gains in the house to make his ass irrelevant.
Anybody following this able to give a balanced summary? I find The Hill to tend right-leaning and don't much trust their analysis.
The Hill seems to be placing the defeat of Bowman on his stance against the genocide in Palestine, which is becoming a sort of dog-whistle saying, "stand against the invasion of Palestine, and this is what happens to you." It may in this case be true; I can believe it, but I don't trust The Hill to not be constructing a narrative.
I think it I saw an article about how this was the most expensive primary for the House.
So yeah, because of his stance on Palestine (which was "genocide bad") Israel interfered in our election.
But Schumer, Harrison, and Biden take more AIPAC money that pretty much anyone else, so they're going to say this proves voters don't want progress and love genocide.or some other crazy shit.
Our system is broken and abused, and a D by someone's name clearly isn't enough anymore.
This is all right, I’ll just add that Bowman was among the first to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, basically right after Oct 7th happened. A number of large progressive Dems have rallied to his side (including Bernie and AOC this past weekend), which clearly wasn’t enough.
This was also a D primary, so everyone had a D by their name.
The other shoe is this is the guy who pulled the fire alarm. The attack ads for his primary have been written for a long time and he didn't have good odds no matter who primaried him. The Dems went with the conservative guy to get AIPAC to fund the campaign and because they don't fundamentally care about ideology, just having the most seats.
This is the guy who pulled a fire alarm to delay a vote. They were never not going to primary him. His statements on Israel just meant they could get AIPAC to fund his replacement.