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

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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 money alone, and it backfired as its backing became toxic. He argued candidates could campaign against the group and raise money for doing so, and that AIPAC began masking its spending because its…

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