The Netanyahu Playbook

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The Netanyahu Playbook

April 10, 2019 at 9:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/10/netanyahu-playbook-offers-warnings-to-democrats/

"SNIP....

Roger Cohen: “His victory contains a warning for any Democrat still imagining that the 2020 election will bring an easy victory over Donald Trump. The Netanyahu playbook will be President Trump’s next year. Gather nationalist and religious voters in your camp, add in a strong economy, dose with fear, sprinkle with strongman appeal, inject a dash of racism and victory is yours — whatever indictments are looming.”

“It’s not that this could happen. It will happen, absent some decisive factor to upend the logic of it. Netanyahu is savvier than Trump, but they share a shrewd assessment of how to control and manipulate the politics of spectacle, as well as a fierce determination to stay out of jail. They campaign ugly.”

Stephen Collinson: “President Trump is celebrating Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli election victory like it’s his own — and in many ways, it is.”

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[elleng]

1. True.

[Dawson Leery]

2. True. On the other hand, Trump has never been popular

and we are a much more diverse country.

Israeli youth are right wing and deeply religious. Bibi won them 2:1.

It is time to cut off their aid. 4 billion a year can do much good here at home.

[Takket]

3. well written. thanks for posting.

Drumpf is a fucking idiot, but Miller's "savvy" matches Bibi's. the battle for 2020 will make 2016 look like a picnic

[Mosby]

4. The real takeaway

Is to not fragment the liberal/progressive party, we only have power when we stick together.

Bibi won with something like 29% of the electorate.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Bingo.

Sadly, it is falling of deaf ears in many places. Of course, this is just more meat for the haters.