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Category Archives: Donald Trump
How Trumpism hid in plain sight for 15 years
The Week: During the Bush years, a diverse group of right-leaning writers and thinkers began sounding an alarm about what mass immigration meant for the rest of the country. Many of them emerged from California, exactly where migration’s transformational effects … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Wins Surprising Jewish Fan Club — Among Russian Immigrants
Forward: At a senior center in South Brooklyn, the old Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet bloc can’t wait to vote for Donald Trump. “I like his honesty, that he’s against Muslims, that he’s against refugees,” said Valentina Albert, a … Continue reading
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Trump Does The Unthinkable
Could somebody do a story like this about Hillary or Obama? I don’t think so. I’ve never heard of them doing anything particularly generous for anyone. Liz Crokin writes: In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill’s family farm … Continue reading
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WP: Trump’s vigorous defense of anti-Semitic image a ‘turning point’ for many Jews
It’s been a really scary week for Jews because of Donald Trump’s six-pointed star tweet. Really really scary. The only thing that was more scary was the Holocaust. For the first time, there are indications that many Jews are turning … Continue reading
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How Trump speaks
Byron York writes: Donald Trump’s speech in Cincinnati Wednesday night astonished even those in the press corps and political world who have spent a long time watching Donald Trump speeches. As Trump talked and talked — the speech lasted 68 … Continue reading
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NYT: Israelis’ Favorite Thing About Donald Trump? His Style (to Put It Bluntly)
New York Times: JERUSALEM — Donald J. Trump has been called a lot of things by a lot of people around the world. In Israel, where his comments about remaining “neutral” in peace negotiations raised hackles but his condemnation of … Continue reading
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The Trump Strategy
Daniel McCarthy aka Tory Anarchist tweets: * Almost seems Trump has deliberate strategy to keep the spotlight on himself, not his opponent, good light or bad. * If that’s his strategy, it relies on media playing along: grasping a distraction … Continue reading
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When Will Trump Act Presidential?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Bottom line is Trump said he’d act more presidential in the general and he said he cut way back on tweeting and blah, blah, blah … Trump is just a hardcore REAL ESTATE ANIMAL to … Continue reading
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Talking Trump At A Shabbat Dinner
Comments at Steve Sailer: * At a “shabatt’ dinner i had with the Jewish half of my family, the topic of trump came up. Predictably, everyone at the table (except me, sitting silently) was denouncing him and saying how scary … Continue reading
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Meet the One Jewish Group that Can Attack Donald Trump
Nathan Guttman writes June 9, 2016: Donald Trump poses a particular challenge to most Jewish organizations. His message stands in stark contrast to their groups’s positions on immigration, race or welfare, but the organizations can’t call him out on it … Continue reading
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