sympathizing

"Something about Bowen being the one to voice this joke despite his interview with Chappell sympathizing with her concerns less than a month ago makes me sad," one person wrote in a post to X.

Mr. Kennedy has also recently aligned himself closer to Mr. Trump by sympathizing with those who have been convicted of crimes in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol.

He cited a radical right-wing group that operates a Telegram channel called “Nazi Hunters,” which has called for the killing of Arab Israelis seen as sympathizing with Gaza.

The Times is an institution, not an individual, but the shoe still fits: “Someone who says they’re politically neutral, but who usually punches left while sympathizing with the right.”

The poll finds 30% of California voters saying they sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians in the current conflict and a similar share, 28%, sympathizing with both sides equally.