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This is Joseph.So, credit where credit is due, Mark called the issues with Graham Platner early on. But one thing that still amazes me about all of this is the strange alignment of the left in it. Matt Yglesias:And It really goes to the central question of "what are the goals of the organization?" and I think it is quite clear that it isn't a resistance movement against Donald Trump. Why am I so sure? When is the last time you saw people protesting Trump over Gaza? Has the Israeli occupation improved greatly since he took power? But you see them protesting the out of power Democrat senators from New York. There was some sort of plausible ambiguity when Biden was president. Perhaps the protesters were so certain that Biden (or Harris) would win that they focused on shifting policy with-in the Democratic party. This would be naive but at least plausible. Meanwhile, the current administration actually started a war with a different middle eastern country (Iran) and we still don't have…

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