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Jonathan V. Last

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

Yes.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

I actually feel very similar to Israel and the Israeli people as I do towards America and the American people in this moment.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

In that the American people have chosen an illiberal, anti-democratic regime.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

And until the American people rectify that mistake...

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

America is just doing bad things all the world over.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

And I really hope that, for instance, the Europeans and the Canadians resist us and are able to establish global security without us.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

Like, I don't know.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

Like, the Netanyahu regime has been...

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

I don't want to call it a criminal regime because I'm not.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

Why not?

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

Not great, but from the perspective of American democracy, the Netanyahu regime has been firmly on the side of Donald Trump.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

And again, this is historically bonkers because the way historically foreign policy works is you with your allies always take pains to make sure that you have deep ties to both sides of the aisle because you recognize that the other side will have power at some point.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

And so you want to be on good relations with them and you don't take sides between the parties.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

You don't do things to try to make one party's life difficult than the others, right?

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

This is, again, this is just foreign policy 101 all the way up through 2020.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

And that is not how they have conducted their foreign policy in Israel.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

So they should be kind, necessary, or true.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

At least two of those three things, and hopefully all three, right?

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

The best comments are kind, necessary, and true, but every comment should be at least two of those things.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans

There was a mega church somewhere.