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E.J. Dionne Jr.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And so I think you will see within the Democratic Party certainly a real distancing from the – it's AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, from that wing of the pro-Israel movement.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And I think you're going to see a real fight because of this generational split.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

I think you cannot underestimate how radical the split is, younger people in their attitudes versus older.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

older people when it comes to Israel.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And that's a real problem for Israel in the long run.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

It sure is.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And it's in both parties.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

Well, let it be recorded that in the state legislature in Florida, thanks to a special election in Florida, the people in the district that Mar-a-Lago is in elected a Democrat to the state legislature.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And there was another state Senate race that also swung to the Democrats every week.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

Every election we've had since Trump's election essentially has shown an average.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

I think the last time I looked, the average was about a 13-point swing, and some of them were even bigger.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

So this is a real problem.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

In a normal world, some Republicans at least would start backing away from Trump.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

But we don't live in a normal world.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

We live in the world of Republican politics that President Trump has created.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And Republicans are not only so afraid of losing primaries to the Trump faction, which is now the dominant faction in the party.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

They're also worried about those folks turning out in the general election.

The Opinions
‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

And I think.

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

When you look at the problems Republicans face, where I do agree that the Senate is now at the point where it could come into play, I think that the most consistent number in the polls are when you ask people, not only do they approve or disapprove of Trump, but do you strongly approve of Trump or strongly disapprove of Trump?

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

The strong disapprovers outnumber the strong approvers by three to two or two to one in