E.J. Dionne Jr.
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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.
And I think you're going to see a real fight because of this generational split.
I think you cannot underestimate how radical the split is, younger people in their attitudes versus older.
older people when it comes to Israel.
And that's a real problem for Israel in the long run.
And it's in both parties.
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.
And there was another state Senate race that also swung to the Democrats every week.
Every election we've had since Trump's election essentially has shown an average.
I think the last time I looked, the average was about a 13-point swing, and some of them were even bigger.
So this is a real problem.
In a normal world, some Republicans at least would start backing away from Trump.
But we don't live in a normal world.
We live in the world of Republican politics that President Trump has created.
And Republicans are not only so afraid of losing primaries to the Trump faction, which is now the dominant faction in the party.
They're also worried about those folks turning out in the general election.
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?
The strong disapprovers outnumber the strong approvers by three to two or two to one in