Ceasefire Now: Trump and the Gaza Generation
There’s no overstating it: President Donald Trump and his voters are about to decide world history. Just ahead of Election Day, I believe it’s more than worth it to regroup and call to mind just how historic the Trump movement is in the grand scheme of global events.
It’s not often that a brief chapter of history is so momentous that it shapes an entire generation of American voters. The terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 and the Bush administration’s response were one such inflection point. Nothing after that has come close…until Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 of last year and the relentless bloodshed that has been taking place in Gaza since.
And here’s where the historic importance of Trumpism comes in.
It’s largely thanks to Trump’s influence that politicians today can’t so much as present themselves as Republican candidates for office without first denouncing the political establishment’s disastrous actions in response to 9/11. The months following the attack were marked by confusion, rashness, and deception. The opportunism, corruption, and political blunders of 2001 and 2002 led to a monster surveillance state, unmanned U.S. drones gunning down civilians in places like Yemen, numerous wars, genocides, and the rise of ISIS.
After Trump’s entry into the national political scene, that whole trag
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