While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party’s nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to block Trump’s path to the White House.
Their plan is to run a candidate who could win three states and enough votes in the electoral college to deny both parties the needed majority. This would throw the election into the House of Representatives, which would then elect a candidate the Kristol group found acceptable. The fact that this would nullify the largest vote ever registered for a Republican primary candidate, the fact that it would jeopardize the Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, and more than likely make Hillary Clinton president, apparently doesn’t faze Kristol and company at all. This is to give elitism a bad name.One would think that the Trump opponents would have substantial reasons for pursuing such a destructive course. But examination of their expressed reasons shows that one would be wrong. Their chief justification for opposing Trump is that he is not a “constitutional conservative” and in fact is “without principles” and therefore dangerous. The evidence offered is that he has supported Democrats in the past and changed his positions on important issues.
Yet in seeking a candidate to carry their standard, the Kristol group has approached billionaire investor Mark Cuban, a figure uncannily similar to Trump. During the presidential election year 2012, the Hollywood Reporter noted that, “in February, billionaire sports and media mogul Mark Cuban was seen hugging Barack Obama at a $30,000-a-plate fundraiser for the president’s re-election bid.” Cuban was also a visible campaigner for Obama four years earlier. A fan of Obamacare, Cuban wrote a column for Huffington Post just before the 2012 election titled, “I would vote for Gov. Romney if he were a Democrat.”
…All these dishonesties and flim-flam excuses pale by comparison with the consequences Kristol and his “Never Trump” cohorts are willing to risk by splitting the Republican vote. Obama has provided America’s mortal enemy, Iran, with a path to nuclear weapons, $150 billion dollars, and the freedom to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver the lethal payloads. Trump has promised to abandon the Iran deal, while Hillary Clinton and all but a handful of Democrats have supported this treachery from start to finish. Kristol is now one of their allies.
I am a Jew who has never been to Israel and has never been a Zionist in the sense of believing that Jews can rid themselves of Jew hatred by having their own nation state. But half of world Jewry now lives in Israel, and the enemies whom Obama and Hillary have empowered — Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Hamas — have openly sworn to exterminate the Jews. I am also an American (and an American first), whose country is threatened with destruction by the same enemies. To weaken the only party that stands between the Jews and their annihilation, and between America and the forces intent on destroying her, is a political miscalculation so great and a betrayal so profound as to not be easily forgiven.
Charles Johnson writes for Gotnews.com:
What Horowitz is revealing is that there is a great divide coming among elite American Jews.
There are Jews who are globalists and Jews who are nationalists. The Jews who are globalists have got to go because they have led us astray and refuse to acknowledge their mistakes and they, like the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens and Bill Kristol, are making common cause with Hillary Clinton.
The Jews who are nationalists are welcome to lead. There are Jews who are ex-Marxists — the neocons! — and those that are anti-Marxist like David Horowitz and Joel Pollak and Trump’s consigliere and Communist hunter Roy Cohn.
You’ll notice that the Jewish anti-Semites like John Podhoretz have been the ones attacking Trump supporting Jews first.
David Horowitz incidentally has been a great friend to me over the years. I have known him since I was 15 years old when I once worked for Alan Dershowitz. He is now a Trump delegate and I know he will have Trump’s ear on the issues that matter regarding world peace.
There’s a case to be made that Trump is to be our first Jewish president. His daughter Ivanka is a Jewess and has borne two Jewish children. So, too, may be his daughter Tiffany, who reportedly goes to Kabbalah. Trump was raised by Jewish allies of his father after his father got early onset Alzheimer’s, and if you listen closely, you can hear the rhythms of Yiddishness in his cadence.
What the neocons of the Bill Kristol variety fear most is a loss of access and with Trump they know they have no purchase. They fear alpha males taking over. They should have lost that access long ago.
But the alt right is wrong to see a Jew lurking behind every major American foreign policy failure of the last fifteen years. There are, after all, sometimes evangelicals who participated. I kid but only slightly.
What we should be looking to do is figuring out a way for the Trump Jews to reassert their rightful place in Judaism and in Jewish life. And fortunately they’ll find a home with Trump just as Trump’s daughter does. Indeed Trump’s daughter is connected to some of the more powerful Jews in New York through her husband but also through her love of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The real Jews are starting to understand Trump’s power.
Sheldon Adelson — the alpha Jew — makes no bones about being an Israel firster and there’s indeed something honest about that. He loves his people — the Jews — and he will back Trump with $100 million only to the extent that he thinks his people will benefit.
Lurking underneath the support of Hillary Clinton over Trump by some of the more secular and left-wing Republican Jews is the following question: Have these missionary wars really been good for the Jews? Undoubtedly they have not been. They have wasted our time, our treasure, and our will on savage Afghans and Arabs.
Making America Great Again makes the world safe for Jewry.
David Horowitz was right to call Bill Kristol on his bullshit.
