I will have to say, it has been hard to post about domestic politics even as the Middle East looks ready to blow up any day. That makes anything in domestic politics look very much like a fragile construction that could be totally upended at any moment -- much like Trump's lead when Biden dropped out.
It also seems self-centered to view the prospect of all-out regional war from the prism of domestic politics, but I can't help it. What would be the results of all-out war in the Middle East? Presumably skyrocketing gas prices and mass riots by the pro-Hamas crowd. That should be enough to put election out of reach by the incumbent party and hand it to Trump.
Nor are my fears limited to the US. In Europe as well, and possibly Latin America, two decades of democratic back sliding are finally beginning to show signs of reversing. And mass riots by Muslims across Europe could very well reverse the reversal and bring the anti-democratic far right to power.
And yet all the accounts I follow seem to be focusing on our domestic politics and treating that Mideast as, at most, an afterthought. So let me do a few domestic posts as well.
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