The Occidental

No, Charlotte. It's not because you don't want Schumer, it's because you DO want Van Hollen. He may be the most anti-Israel Senator right now, perhaps in competition with Ro Khanna. Even to my Gentile eyes, it feels like he is intent on bringing Israel to its knees by controlling its weapons supply, our regional partnership, and treating them not as a major non-NATO ally that they are (by law) but as a rogue, fascist-Nazi state that enjoys torturing Arabs. (The likely outcome of which will be pushing Israel toward our enemies.) To a lot of people, even non-Jews like me, his and Ro's obsessive focus on "zeroing aid and stopping arms sales" is basically the same as the Soviet response to Israel when the Soviets chose the Arab states over Israel after the 1967 war. Add to this Abdul El-Sayed who never stops talking about doing all the above and more, and it starts to not feel good for the descendants of Holocaust survivors and other Jews who make up .2% of the world population. Kinda feels like enemy forces are seizing your power, accomplishments, and status, with outsized effort, just like they did in 1930s Europe. Add TO THAT 👆🏼 Van Hollen's very poor judgment about the likes of Graham Platner where the Nazi tattoo and the sexting infidelity and alcoholism wasn't a bar for Chris to support him. I mean, other than him coming to the podium in the Senate speaking German, what more could Van Hollen do to overspread the 2nd most reliable voter bloc for Dems (American Jews) with feelings of doom? And as if one needed more, add to all the above his performance when he was Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair in 2010, 2 years after Obama was elected, and Congressional Democrats lost 63 seats in Congress and helped give birth to the Republican Tea Party and I just....I can't see why anyone would look to him with starry eyes. It's baffling, frankly.