In 2025 we’re witnessing a political blender: the collapse of outdated political alliances and the emergence of latest coalitions.
The metaphor comes from John Michael Greer and its influence was dramatically enhanced by the synchronicity of my Twitter feed.
These are the posts I noticed back-to-back:
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) August 26, 2025
I’ll clarify who Jake Shields and Shaun King are and why they matter on the finish of this piece, however first let’s look a bit deeper at Greer’s evaluation.
And earlier than we try this, I would like to say that I’ll barely be discussing the collapse of the Western proper as a result of that has been manifested by Donald Trump’s destruction of the outdated heart proper G.O.P. in 2016, which was sealed in 2024, and within the utter collapse of the Tory occasion within the U.Ok. within the David Cameron-Theresa Could-Boris Johnson-Liz Truss-Richie Sunak period.
Now it’s the Democrats’ (and Labours’) flip.
In his piece, “The Narrative Lure“, Greer sums up the strategic cul-de-sac confronted by the American Democratic occasion particularly and all Western centrist events extra usually:
…the narrative that Democratic politicians and their sock puppets within the media use to interpret in the present day’s politics. That narrative, as I’ve mentioned earlier than, insists that the only supply of all of the world’s issues is {that a} Dangerous Particular person needs to vary issues. Whether or not you name the Dangerous Particular person Sauron or Voldemort or Palpatine or Donald Trump, it’s all the time the identical narrative, as rigidly clichéd because the plot of a porn flick or a bodice-busting romance novel. It leads the individuals who consider it into the self-defeating notion that each one they need to do is do away with the Dangerous Particular person and nothing else has to vary.
What the Democrats are refusing to take care of is {that a} substantial majority of Individuals are bitterly sad with the outcomes of what, till Trump’s rise, was a bipartisan coverage consensus in American public life. They’re not flocking to Trump for no motive in any respect. They’re flocking to him as a result of he’s the one determine within the political scene providing them a substitute for a state of affairs they discover insupportable.
The abysmal failures of the Kamala Harris marketing campaign in 2024 and Joe Biden’s presidential administration have left the Democrats as bare as any emperor who ever paid gold for magic robes.
And that rope is perhaps invisible and intangible however one way or the other it’s been caught in a really actual political blender.
I haven’t written my “Why Folks Hate Joe Biden: Three Genocides in 4 Years” piece but, nevertheless it’s coming. My primary define is as such:
Despite the fact that the Western company media has achieved its degree finest to obscure the true significance of these demise tolls, homicide will out.
And mass homicide will out in an enormous, massive manner.
The Democrats are being dragged into Greer’s political blender.
Regardless of the “COVID’s not an enormous deal, we overreacted” narrative taking maintain as typical knowledge.
Regardless of the “properly really, it’s the Russians who’ve misplaced one million casualties” claims of official Western sources.
Regardless of the countless genocide denials of mainstream pundits.
We are able to see the Democrats being dragged into the political blender by way of their plummeting voter registration numbers:
The Democratic Occasion is hemorrhaging voters lengthy earlier than they even go to the polls.
Of the 30 states that observe voter registration by political occasion, Democrats misplaced floor to Republicans in each single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and infrequently by rather a lot.
That four-year swing towards the Republicans provides as much as 4.5 million voters, a deep political gap that might take years for Democrats to climb out from.
We are able to see the Democrats being dragged into the political blender over the priority trolling of Democratic New York Metropolis Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani by U.S. Home Majority Chief Hakeem Jeffries.
CNN’s Dana Bash: You could have but to endorse Zoron Mdani, who after all your occasion (nominated) about two months in the past to be the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York Metropolis. As a New Yorker, what does he must do to safe your endorsement?
Rep. Jeffries: Properly, we had a really candid and constructive and neighborhood centered dialog a number of weeks in the past earlier than he went off to Africa. I’ve after all been on the highway uh for the final a number of weeks dealing partly with the Republican effort to attempt to rig the midterm elections by way of their gerrymandering scheme. However Congresswoman Yvette Clark, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and myself are scheduled to sit down down with him within the subsequent few days. I look ahead to that dialog.
Jeffries’ Hamlet act has resulted in a refrain of “What occurred to ‘Vote Blue, No Matter Who?’ critiques from former Bernie Sanders supporters equivalent to Emma Vigeland on MSNBC:
From final night time on @MSNBC: What occurred to “vote blue regardless of who?” My ideas on Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries persevering with to refuse to endorse @ZohranKMamdani, setting him up for a formidable main problem in his district, which Mamdani gained by 12 factors. pic.twitter.com/tIBCkEajHG
— Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) August 18, 2025
Jeffries appears to assume he has extra gravitational pull than the extremely fashionable Mamdani, however Jeffries dangers being dragged into the political blender.
As we see right here with Jeffries being branded “AIPAC Shakur” by the immensely fashionable Black discuss present host Charlamagne tha God:
Breakfast Membership host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: “I name him AIPAC Shakur.”
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— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 27, 2025
The Democrats being dragged into the political blender might be seen in Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer-Labor Occasion endorsing State Senator Omar Fateh’s candidacy for Minneapolis mayor just for the state DFL occasion to step in and rescind his endorsement.
As The Nation reported:
Initially, the Minneapolis DFL appeared to agree. Within the closing formal balloting on the July conference, greater than 60 p.c of delegates selected to again Fateh over incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey, a DFLer who final 12 months issued a file variety of vetoes of measures permitted by the progressive majority on town council, together with a Gaza ceasefire decision.
As well as, simply earlier than the conference adjourned, and at a degree when plenty of Frey backers had departed, Fateh gained a show-of-hands vote the place delegates held up badges to point whom they supported.
Fateh started campaigning, precisely, because the “DFL-endorsed” candidate.
However then the shock got here. Final week, a state DFL occasion committee revoked the endorsement after Frey and his allies complained {that a} “extremely flawed and untested” digital voting system produced a major variety of uncounted votes on the conference. Considerations had been additionally raised about delays tied to gradual Web connections and a bunch of points that annoyed backers of each main endorsement contenders.
Frey celebrated the choice to revoke the endorsement, saying, “I’m proud to be a member of a celebration that believes in correcting our errors.”
We are able to see the Democrats being dragged into the political blender with the embarrassing “darkish woke” floundering of Gavin Newsom, whilst he’s nonetheless pandering to the worst of the Kamala Harris coterie.
We are able to see the Democrats being dragged into the political blender when U.S. Senate Minority chief Chuck Schumer’s stubbornly insists on trying to recruit a 77-year-old right into a Maine Senate race the place the Democrats have already fielded a number of, youthful, extra promising candidates.
And underlying all the Democrats’ issues is their willful refusal to just accept the overwhelming will of their voters and oppose the genocide in Gaza.
Regardless of it being ever extra evident that backing Israel was a prime explanation for Harris dropping the presidential election. From The Nation:
As one Harris marketing campaign staffer defined to The Nation, a senior official within the Harris marketing campaign knowledgeable voter engagement organizers at first of October 2024 that they had been to not to file voter suggestions about Gaza of their inner methods.
This meant that the marketing campaign merely stopped participating with voters involved about Gaza within the essential closing weeks main as much as the election, across the similar time that Kamala Harris embraced Liz and Dick Cheney and despatched Invoice Clinton to Michigan, the place he alienated the swing state’s Arab and Muslim voters by declaring that Israel had been “pressured” to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza. “The thought course of within the marketing campaign with Muslim voters, younger voters, with anyone who was involved about Gaza was, OK, we’ll lose you, however we’ll decide up two some place else,” the staffer mentioned. Everyone knows what occurred after that.
In a letter from March, these teams cite January polling by YouGov and the IMEU Coverage Undertaking that discovered “ending Israel’s violence in Gaza” was the highest concern (29 p.c) of those that had voted for President Biden in 2020 and forged a poll for somebody apart from Harris in 2024. It notes that this was the case for 38 p.c of those voters in Arizona, 32 p.c in Michigan, 32 p.c in Wisconsin, and 36 p.c of voters below 45.
The polling additionally signifies that 56 p.c of Biden 2020 voters who didn’t vote for Harris say they would like to assist a candidate who voted to withhold weapons from Israel, whereas simply 16 p.c would like a candidate who voted in opposition to withholding weapons.
However they simply can’t deliver themselves to vary:
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) August 27, 2025
The Democratic Occasion’s divisions over Israel and the warfare in Gaza had been on messy show at a gathering of the Democratic Nationwide Committee on Tuesday, as members weighed simply how far to go in reprimanding Israel for its conduct on the battlefield.
Then, the occasion chairman abruptly deserted his personal proposal, kicking the topic to a job drive in an acknowledgment of putting up with intraparty tensions.
“There’s divide in our occasion on this problem,” Ken Martin, the D.N.C. chairman, mentioned. “We’ve got to discover a path ahead as a celebration and we now have to remain unified.”
Mr. Martin’s surprising transfer got here throughout a morning session of the D.N.C. assembly in Minneapolis, the place occasion activists had debated dueling resolutions about how to reply to the humanitarian disaster and warfare in Gaza.
The measures had been nearly fully symbolic, but laid naked the broader generational and establishment-versus-grass-roots fault traces shaping the occasion almost two years after the warfare started.
One measure, backed by plenty of youthful D.N.C. members together with the leaders of the School Democrats of America and Excessive Faculty Democrats of America, known as on Democratic elected officers to endorse an arms embargo and the suspension of navy assist to Israel, and to acknowledge Palestine as a nation.
The opposite, supported by Mr. Martin and his allies on the Resolutions Committee, sought to chart one thing of a center course. Their decision urged an inflow of humanitarian assist to Gaza, a direct cease-fire, the discharge of hostages taken captive from Israel in the course of the Hamas-led assaults of Oct. 7, 2023 and “a reputable, negotiated pathway towards a two-state answer” for Israelis and Palestinians.
Sufficient concerning the doomed Democrats who refuse to drag their neckties and fingers out of the political blender.
Let’s discuss concerning the new schisms that the political blender is producing on the MAGA proper.
It’s most clearly seen within the emergence of MAGA queen Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a vocal and efficient critic of Israel .
It’s one factor for a relative outlier like MTG to develop into a critic of Israel’s genocide, however she appears to have pulled alongside former Fox famous person speaking head Megyn Kelly into critical criticisms of AIPAC:
Megyn Kelly: (MGT is) making headlines now over cracks in her assist for a few of (Trump’s) present stances. Ukraine, Israel, the Epstein information, simply to call a number of.…I’ve been very pro-Israel and I’ve been very defensive of of their proper to defend themselves on this nightmare. And I’ve been very defensive of American Jews on campuses who’re simply being harassed and it’s ridiculous, after all. However I’ve completely no pores and skin in any respect in defending any lobbyist group together with AIPAC.
I might like to know what they do to get the loyalty of politicians as a result of I’ll say I’ve had a number of reachouts to me each from pals and from linked folks in DC begging me to go to Israel with them. And I’ve mentioned no each time.…These days it looks as if it’s coming to be much more as a result of I really feel like there’s there’s a contingent of people who find themselves anxious that they’re dropping me. I’ve mentioned that I’m not on Hamas’s aspect. However…I’m taking a look at Israel differently proper now than I used to be on 10/8. That’s for positive.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Have you ever been invited by every other overseas nation?
Kelly:: No.
Greene: We’ve got tons of lobbyists (from) overseas international locations that come to Washington D.C. Just about each nation has some form of consultant. They’ve an envoy they ship to Washington. It’s naturally of their curiosity. We are able to perceive that. In addition they are required to register below FARA (International Brokers Registration Act). It’s a legislation. They need to register as a overseas agent, a overseas lobbyist. That’s required. It’s extraordinarily vital.
Right here’s the right here’s the distinction with AIPAC. AIPAC shouldn’t be registered below FARA that requires anybody coming to foyer a member of Congress or a senator or division of the federal government and the federal authorities on behalf of one other nation.
So AIPAC argues, oh however we’re Individuals. Sure, they’re Individuals, however they’re coming to Congress and to the federal authorities asking on behalf of the nation of Israel. And I absolutely agree with you, Megan. We aren’t in opposition to Israel.
We’re all for his or her proper to defend themselves. …Nevertheless, Israel is the one nation I do know of that has some form of unimaginable affect and management over almost each single one in all my colleagues.
This can be a dialog on Kelly’s Sirius Radio present which can also be streamed on YouTube, reaching over 1 / 4 of one million views. These are numbers which can be very aggressive with the audiences drawn by Kelly’s outdated employer Fox Information and blow previous MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
Now let’s get to the extraordinarily odd rising alliance I referenced on the prime of this submit. That is really a political blender in motion.
Jake Shields is a retired Blended Martial Artist who as soon as fought for a UFC title. He has over 800,000 followers on Elon Musk’s X.
The Southern Poverty Regulation Middle has accused Shields of “spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories, male supremacist bigotry and white nationalist beliefs.”
I’m properly conscious of the SPLC’s dystopian “disinformation” flip below Margaret Huang, however I’ve to agree with their fees in opposition to Shields, whom I’ve adopted intently for years in my work as a sports activities author.
Shaun King is an activist who rose to prominence within the Black Lives Matter period. He has over 900,000 followers on X.
King has been dogged by controversy over his precise ethnicity, his fundraising practices, and his claims to have labored with Hamas to safe the discharge of Israeli-American hostages.
Regardless of all this, King has held on to a really giant viewers and has remained an advocate for African-Individuals on quite a few points.
Shields and King have been on-line enemies for years.
And now?
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) August 27, 2025
Whereas neither man is somebody I might ever contemplate endorsing, and even take critically as a pundit or thinker, I do take their affect over their respective mass audiences very critically.
Shields has additionally allied with Jewish anti-Zionist comic Dave Smith to oppose the genocide as seen on this inadvertently hilarious tweet:
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) August 26, 2025
Forgive me a chuckle at Shields’ waving away of his and Smith’s divergent views on a sure German dictator in a parenthesis.
Smith just lately debated British Zionist Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan Expertise in a confrontation that has been seen almost 5 million occasions.
I scored that dialogue as an enormous public loss for the Zionist trigger. And the hand-wringing and meta-discussions of wokespertise vs experience by institution proper pundits at Quillette, UnHerd, and others solely made me extra sure that Rogan and Smith picked up Murray and his makes an attempt to obfuscate genocide and threw them into the political blender.
At the moment Smith, Shields and King are all three are working to show Israeli authorities official Tom Alexandrovich, who may need escaped prosecution within the U.S., however he can’t escape the political blender.
Some background on that case by way of The Guardian:
An Israeli authorities official charged with soliciting a minor believed he was assembly a 15-year-old lady for “sexual contact”, based on police – and introduced a condom to the deliberate rendezvous in Las Vegas.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a division head on the Israel Nationwide Cyber Directorate, was arrested in a police sting operation aimed toward on-line customers searching for to sexually prey on youngsters. The Las Vegas outlet 8NewsNow reported that Alexandrovich chatted with an officer posing as an adolescent on-line earlier than being arrested.
“The sexual contact included bringing a condom and taking the decoy to ‘Cirque du Soleil’,” which phases elaborate reveals alongside the Las Vegas Strip, mentioned police paperwork seen by 8NewsNow.
Particulars of the arrest got here because the state division denied the US authorities performed any function in releasing the Israeli official – after Alexanderovich was in a position to return to Israel as soon as he had bonded out of jail in reference to the felony cost.
A swarm of commentary on-line, propelled partly by Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, speculated that Alexanderovich had been shielded by the federal government at a time when the Trump administration has been struggling to comprise criticism over unfulfilled guarantees to launch all information associated to the prosecution of the late, disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.…A submit on Israel’s authorities web site from November describes Alexandrovich because the “head of the Technological Protection Division on the INCD [Israel National Cyber Directorate]”. A screenshot on Alexanderovich’s LinkedIn web page, first reported by Mediaite, describes him as the identical. A submit on Alexandrovich’s web page alluded to his having been in Las Vegas earlier in August for the Black Hat Briefings, a yearly assembly of cybersecurity professionals.
“Two issues you possibly can’t escape at Black Hat 2025: the relentless buzz of generative [artificial intelligence] and the sound of Hebrew … in each hall,” Alexandrovich wrote partly in an accompanying submit. Invoking an abbreviation for big language fashions and referring to one in all Israel’s largest cities, the submit continued: “The important thing takeaway? The way forward for cybersecurity is being written in code, and it appears a major a part of it’s being authored in #TelAviv and powered by LLMs. An thrilling time to be within the subject!”
King has revealed that Alexanderovich, by his personal admission, performs a serious function in on-line censorship:
Israel does NOT need you to see this. It is an Israel information interview of the pedophile, Tom Alexandrovich, earlier than he was arrested in Vegas for intercourse crimes in opposition to youngsters.
Right here, he admits HE is the one submitting social media takedown requests for Israel.
40,000 of them90% permitted https://t.co/yuZ1Prn2Lu pic.twitter.com/mgxnvyREEu
— Shaun King (@shaunking) August 22, 2025
Figures like Greene, Shields, King, and Smith is perhaps properly outdoors the pale of political respectability as most of us have understood it in earlier a long time, however the political blender is spitting up some unlikely leaders within the political vacuum produced by the utter corruption of mainstream politics.
