[Peace] concerning the PDL attack on Ellison

[Robert Naiman]

Ellison asked the PDL for a meeting. The PDL refused to meet with Ellison.



Why did the PDL refuse to meet with Ellison?



Because they were already planning to attack him. If they met with him, it
would have been harder to attack him.



I strongly suspect that the PDL was always planning to attack Ellison. It
was just a question of tempo.



On foreign policy, the PDL is a bad faith actor. On foreign policy, the PDL
is an abuser.



>From now on, when referring to the PDL's work on foreign policy, I will
refer to it as the PDL, to distinguish it from the organization that works
on domestic policy. With regard to the PDL's work on foreign policy, it is
false and misleading advertising to use the other name. I will not use the
other name to refer to the PDL's work on foreign policy until the PDL stops
being an abuser.



The bad news is, the PDL attack on Ellison just made the Ellison thing a
lot harder.



The good news is, when we win the Ellison thing, we beat the PDL. That's
like beating AIPAC on the Iran deal. It makes the future fundamentally
different from the past. It destroys their reputation of invincibility.



PS: In case you were wondering, the real Keith Ellison is right here:


https://keithfordnc.org/platform?utm_source=kec&utm_campaign=platform
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