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Yeah.
For one thing, public opinion really is changing, and just like for the Iraq War or the attitude towards police in the country, the people who are behind the curve are totally lost as to how things are shifting, and just assume they're in the majority as they've always been. You don't know what you don't know.
One of the absolutely predictable failure modes of propaganda-driven empires is that the stuff that gets generated to get printed in the papers to fool the proles, winds up getting read by the leaders, and fools them too. I don't get how people are accusing the Democrats of losing votes on purpose in the election because they love Israel. I think they (almost all of them, certainly the DNC segment) are absolutely convinced that it's a tiny scattered handful of people who are "antisemitic" or whatever, and most people support what they're doing, and so of course they're going to stand behind our wonderful ally Israel, although they're upset about civilian casualties during the war as anybody would be.