Here’s where I’m coming from with Mahmoud Khalil.

I spent a decade in progressive politics, and I got into it for healthcare policy and economic policy.

Over the decade, I saw certain ideas start to infiltrate the movement. The pretext was being anti war. The subtext was being anti-United States.

The thing that always confused me was the bizarre fascination with Islam. A lot of focus on leaving Iran alone and Freeing Palestine. A lot of criticism of Obama’s efforts against ISIS, which I always thought were one of the national security highlights of his presidency. And sometimes she would look into some of the people spreading these ideas and yeah, it came from a lot of institutions that require Middle Eastern funding.

The moment I realized progressives were fucked wasn’t just October 7. It was the Women’s March and seeing the leadership flat out align with antisemitism.

I watched these ideas accelerate the radicalism that destroyed my movement of a decade. There is no future where we get single payer healthcare in the United States via progressives in my estimation. Too many of the people in that movement are not pro progressive policy. They are anti-United States.

Really imagine spending a decade of your life working on something and seeing radicalism destroy it. I could’ve been working on a lot of things for the last 10 years like video games.

So I have seen firsthand how convincing people their own country is the enemy can break things I love.

I see what happened at Columbia through that lens. You have people coming into the United States, inculcating college students into extremist views and breaking our institutions.

During the 2016 Trump resistance, we talked a lot about information warfare. And that’s probably more comfortable for Democrats to think about when it’s accusations about Russia, compromising Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

But in my estimation, there’s another information war going on that Democrats are uniquely susceptible to. And it’s this idea of blindly praising all multiculturalism and turning a blind eye to people here trying to hurt our country.

I don’t understand why Democrats don’t see these domestic terror attack attacks in Germany, and realize this could be our future if we don’t think through the people we are letting in the door. Antisemitism has shaped a hell of a lot of human history.
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这是我为什么会对马哈茂德·哈利勒产生怀疑的根源。

我在进步派政治圈干了十年，当初投身其中是因为我关心医保政策和经济政策。

但在这十年里，我看到某些思想逐渐渗入整个运动。表面上是反战，实际上却是反美。

最让我困惑的，一直是那种对伊斯兰的莫名迷恋。很多声音在呼吁“不要干涉伊朗”、“解放巴勒斯坦”。奥巴马打击ISIS的行动也遭到了大量批评，而我一直认为那是他总统任期内国家安全政策的高光时刻之一。有时我会去查这些观点的源头，发现确实很多都来自中东资金支持的机构。

让我真正意识到进步派完了的，不只是2023年10月7日那一天，而是“女性大游行”（Women’s March）那次，我亲眼看到整个领导层竟然公然站在反犹太主义那一边。

我眼睁睁看着这些思想加速了激进主义的蔓延，摧毁了我奋斗十年的政治运动。在我看来，美国不可能通过进步派实现全民医保。因为这个阵营里太多人根本不是为了推进进步政策，而是反对美国本身。

你能想象吗？花十年时间投入一件事情，结果看着它被激进主义一点点毁掉。我这十年本可以去做很多别的，比如做电子游戏。

所以我亲身经历了——如果你让人相信他们自己的国家是敌人，他们会毁掉你所热爱的东西。

这正是我看待哥伦比亚大学事态的视角。我们看到一些人进入美国，把极端主义思想灌输给大学生，最后摧毁我们的制度。

2016年特朗普上台后，反对者曾经谈过很多“信息战”。当时很多民主党人比较愿意接受这种说法，因为他们喜欢指责俄罗斯干涉、特朗普被收买、共和党被操控。

但在我看来，还有一场信息战正在发生，而民主党人对此尤其脆弱——那就是：盲目崇拜多元文化，对某些来这里伤害我们国家的人睁一只眼闭一只眼。

我真的不明白为什么民主党人看不清楚德国最近的那些国内恐袭事件，为什么不能意识到：如果我们不认真思考我们让谁进门，这很可能就是美国的未来。反犹主义在整个人类历史中已经造成了无数灾难。