Will the Yang Gang crack up over Andrew Yang's anti-BDS BS?

Andrew Yang is officially out of the bad (and officially in Pander Bear territory), with part of his campaign for NYC mayor being officially anti-BDS, and with this, is officially in Just.Another.Politician.™ territory.

Beyond the general issues, it's also clear that he's full of shit in particular ways, and that he is clueless about the First Amendment's freedom of assembly clause, which, as much or more than the free speech clause, protects the rights of people like you and me to conduct organized boycotts.

He first compared the boycotts to "fascist boycotts of Jewish business." Totally false. There's no police state behind BDS boycotts, first. Second, the motive is totally different.

But, when called out, he not only refused to back down, he doubled down.

He accused BDS of supporting violent resistance, which it officially does not.

This sets aside the issue of Palestinians' violence being a response to Israeli violence. 

And, of Israel continuing to criminalize nonviolent protest by Palestinians.

Third? The Pander Bear territory.

Yang is running for NYC mayor. And it's clear he's targeting the majority of Jewish voters that are still full Zionists. After all, as the piece above notes, this started with him running an op-ed in Forward.

I'm "shocked."

Yang struck me as a Pander Bear on Basic Income in his prez run. Although he didn't often go into details, it seemed to me he supported more libertarian types of BI, like Scott Santens does. (Santens, AFAIK, is still lying and claiming that there is no division between different types of BI, when I and many others have covered this in detail.)

In short, Yang was appealing to tech-neoliberals, or to narrow the working space more, tech-left-neoliberals, within the younger end of Gen Xers and older Millennials. (Note that I divide generations differently than pop sociologists and marketers; my Boomers end in 1960, with a mini-generation of "Tweeners" born 1961-69, Xers running 1969-1986 or so, a Gen Y from there to 1998 or so, and Millennials after that.)

Some friendly related reminders:

Santens was once dumb enough or grifter enough to call Trump a "basic income Moses." Also, per the "covered" link, yes, "following" on Twitter doesn't mean everything, but following both Charlie Kirk and Turning Point?

Santens also supports cryptocurrency, which is HUGELY climate-change unfriendly, another reason certain Greens should stop fluffing him.

Tulsi Gabbard was another political grifter who latched on to BI, and who is anti-BDS, and yet has too many left-libs who drink her Kool-Aid.