‘It’s so over’: Once-feared lobby declared dead in new column after midterm shellacking

Political analyst Matthew Yglesias argued in his “Slow Boring” Substack that the political clout of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was collapsing, declaring: “It’s so over for AIPAC.” His thesis was that AIPAC’s power rested less on money than on voters broadly agreeing with it on Israel, which made it easy to find challengers for its targets. In 2026, he said, AIPAC tried to win on…

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