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Hello, and welcome to Cutting Through. I'm Mitchell Putnick, the president of Rethinking Foreign Policy and the author of the Cutting Through newsletter on Substack. So today, I had not planned initially on recording a video, but things that I have seen in response to Donald Trump's horrifying announcement about a plan for ethnic cleansing in Gaza,
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just forced me to do something, to say something and to speak out. And it's not from the usual sources. It's not from the pro-Israel rights. It's not from Republicans. It's not from people supporting Trump's plan, as a matter of fact. um, the responses have come from democratic mouthpieces basically.
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And, um, it, it's horrifying and it, it, it reflects something really terrible. Um, Just one example, Brian Krasenstein, who has a pretty significant social media following, tech bro, but absolutely someone who is aligned strongly with the Democratic Party. He wrote this to Muslims, Muslims, specifically Muslims, who sat out the election because Kamala Harris was too, quote, pro-Israel.

VIDEO: The Racism of Democratic Mouthpieces

An appalling number of Democratic party activists have chosen to react to Donald Trump's abhorrent plans for Gaza by mocking voters who couldn't bring themselves to vote for genocide in November.

Donald Trump presented a plan for ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The overwhelming reaction was to make it clear that the plan was immoral, illegal, and intolerable.

But some Democratic operatives thought it was a good time to engage in denial of the fact that all of this was enabled and set up by the genocidal policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and to denigrate voters—sometimes even attacking particular ethnicities—who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for genocide in November.

I respond to those people here. But more importantly, it is important to remember that it is people like this who are the reason that even in the face of authoritarian madness like that of Trump and the GOP the Democrats still can’t win. Blaming voters because your candidate embraced genocide is suicidal politics.

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