Just four years ago, this would have been politically unthinkable: a supermajority of Senate Democrats voting to block weapons sales to Israel.

Now it’s happening in plain sight.

Wednesday’s Senate vote wasn’t about whether the resolutions would pass. They never had a chance in a Republican-controlled chamber. What mattered was forcing a reckoning and putting every Democrat on the record.

And the result was unmistakable.

Forty out of 47 Democrats voted to block a $295 million sale of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel. Thirty-six voted to block $152 million in bomb transfers. That’s not a protest vote. That’s a party shift.

The resolutions, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, did exactly what they were designed to do: expose how far the Democratic Party has moved........

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