There must certainly be a word-stacking German term for the uncanny feeling of seeing a patently unqualified, far-right, election-denier, white nationalist freak becomes the only administration figure to resign over the increasingly disastrous Iran War with an at least vaguely anti-Semitic gripe. It is an interesting moment. Let’s remember that Kent isn’t just some administration official. He’s an white nationalist extremist who had no business holding any position of trust in the US government. He’s been friends to numerous anti-Semites long before today’s news broke.
Some people are inclined to be sympathetic to the ideas contained in Kent’s claim that “[i]t is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” If that’s you, think a bit more seriously about just how Israel would be in a position to exert this “pressure” and don’t let your animus toward Trump make you a fellow traveler with someone as odious as Joe Kent.
