Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”

Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

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    You can think that we are wrong all you want. But we can point to evidence that you’re wrong. It didn’t happen in 1980. It didn’t happen in 2000. It didn’t happen in 2016. And it didn’t happen any number of times before that.

    Literally the only time in at least the last 50 years. The Democrats actually listened and changed their behavior. Was when they were primaried by someone much more Progressive and committed. They saw the turn out for Sanders and changed because of it. They’ve never changed for non-turnout. Or to court the voters of third-party candidates that struggle to even break single digits.

    Civil rights wasn’t passed because of non-voting or even protests. It was passed because of a desire to win the near guaranteed votes of that group. If they weren’t, neither a group would have passed it yet.

    Teaching them requires strong candidates to primary them with and pull them to listen to you. Blame democrats for not primary themselves all you want it’s just kind of foolish. You and we as a whole we need to start preparing now to primary candidates at every level of government in all upcoming elections. That’s how they listen.

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      They should have had a primary in 2024 if their only candidate was a genocide supporter. If Democrats lose because of this, because they didn’t, I’ll be so pissed.