No. of Recommendations: 7
I think Tlaib is disconnected.
Somewhat. I mean, she's not wrong that there's probably some aspect of Biden's approach to Israel and Gaza that you could find a majority of Americans object to. That's why she used the circumlocution that the American people are not "with you," rather than saying that the American people believe X.
But it's also somewhat just rhetoric. People respond to political advertising that suggests that their neighbors support/believe something, so people who are advocating for a position know to frame their position as if it had majority support. Not that President Biden will believe that, but so other members of the public will believe it.
I do think, though, that there's a little bit of the "epistomological bubble" thing going here, too. Just as progressive Jews have been a little surprised to find out how little support there is for the existence of Israel among their far left allies, I think those far left allies are a little surprised to find out how much pushback there is in the overall Democratic party to their beliefs about Israel. I think a good many of them thought it was self-evident how all good-thinking people ought to think about these issues, and they're somewhat surprised to find a difference of opinion from what their circles believe.
