The country’s politics and alliances are transforming in real time

The unraveling has begun. How far it will go, remains to be seen.

Many on the Left seem to be wrestling with the fact that those they’ve held up (and joined) as beacons of inclusion and defenders of the marginalized (the social justice warriors) are cheering for the death and destruction of innocent Israeli civilians — babies, whole families, young people at a peace festival.

The most committed social justice warriors are declaring this massacre justified. Inevitable. Deserved.

But some on the Left who aligned themselves with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and BLM in the past few years are wondering: Were they always this cruel? This destructive? This genocidal? I support freedom and justice for Palestinians but not a pogrom reminiscent of the Holocaust. What is happening?