Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world. • The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The ‘pro-white nationalist’ whose power over Trump grows every day• Trump’s military cheerleader who is learning about war the hard way• The female firebrand ready to reshape Trump’s America• Netanyahu’s to blame for his American nightmare – and it spells his doom

Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world.

• The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The ‘pro-white nationalist’ whose power over Trump grows every day• Trump’s military cheerleader who is learning about war the hard way• The female firebrand ready to reshape Trump’s America• Netanyahu’s to blame for his American nightmare – and it spells his doom

Rahm Emanuel has always fashioned himself as a truth-teller. The former Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff, US ambassador to Japan, and Democratic member of Congress, is an unabashed political in-fighter who has been handing out advice to all who will listen as he considers a run for the presidency – a run whose success appears unlikely to anyone who is not Rahm Emanuel.

To Democrats who are struggling to define the party’s direction, Emanuel says moderation is the path back to power. This is not the time, he says, to swing left and alienate the centrist voters needed to strip control of the House of Representatives, and maybe the Senate, from the Republicans who have been all too happy to comply with the whims of Donald Trump.

Emanuel also turned up this summer at Tel Aviv University, where he said Benjamin Netanyahu’s grievous choices have led Israel into a dead end. No longer, he said, should the US contribute nearly........

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