Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents. Author, "Beinart Notebook" on Substack. Prof, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. MSNOW Analyst. Tweets=my views, not CUNY's
This understates the lunacy of their position. They're also supporting a candidate determined to help Donald Trump make climate change worse. Last I checked, an uninhabitable planet affects Jews too.
Because El-Sayed won by a smaller than expected margin, people may now underestimate what an extraordinary campaign he ran. How many senate candidates get outspent that dramatically and still win? His campaign offers a model for how Democrats reclaim both nationalism and populism