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From: S. maltophilia	9/16/2025 9:49:38 PM
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Every political movement is factional and to some degree heterogeneous. MAGA's many contradictions, to say nothing of the Trump personality cult at its core, make it less coherent than most: days after Bannon inveighed against foreign wars, Trump boasted of executing 11 people in international waters, evidently desiring to provoke a military confrontation with Venezuela. But the nativism, militarism, and dominance politics uniting all MAGA elements render silly the past several months of confusion over why Israel enjoys so much support on the American right. When MAGA looks at Israel, it sees the America it wants. As the youngest settler-colonial outpost of Western civilization in non-Western lands, Israel provides real-time examples of the frontier heritage MAGA valorizes. When the Israeli military despoiled West Bank olive trees en masse last month to render Palestinian life there unviable, many were reminded of the 19th-century photographs... zeteo.com

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