Mr. Stephens points at Trump and his obliteration ‘the moral guardrails that keep bigotry down.’ The ‘as if’ here is that his readers will develop ‘political/moral amnesia’ , on Mr, Stephens’ shameless advocacy of the IDF’S mass murder of Palestinians!
That shopworn Anti-Semitic trope of ‘duel loyalty’ does not apply to Mr. Stephens, as respectable bourgeouise apologist, for mass murder committed by his political/religious allies, but to the twin Tribalisms of Zionism and the Starussian Mendacity with the name of Neo-Conservatism!
Is this just another definitional frame that reflects the notion that ‘identity’ is not a singularity but a plurality, as presented in Amartya Sen’s ‘Identity and Violence:The Illusion of Destiny’ ?
Almost Marx