When pressed about his Jewishness in the most recent democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders said he was not only proud to be Jewish, but that because of his own family history, he himself was aware of the dangers of radical and extremist politics.
Now that one Jewish question of this election has been addressed, what about the second? Given that Donald Trump has large support from the white nationalist movement, support he relies on not only to mobilize votes, but also to help police his increasingly violent campaign rallies, why aren’t more Jews, and specifically, more Republican Jews, sounding the alarm about Trump? Are they too afraid of Hillary Clinton, too convinced of their own safety, and all out of political ammunition?
It is no secret that white nationalist groups have delighted in and supported the rise of Trump. Their support has been well documented. Their leaders openly endorsed Trump and make robocalls for him in advance of primaries, warning about the preservation of the white race. (“Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump.”) They turn out in large numbers to vote for him and attend his rallies in droves, often acting as an informal security force. For his part, Trump has wobbled on disavowing this support. (His son recently gave a radio interview to a noted white nationalist and his campaign has given press credentials to a white supremacist radio station.)
To be sure, Republicans who happen to be Jewish are upset about Trump, but mostly because he’s bad for the brand. He’s not a true conservative, they say. He could have just as easily run as a Democrat, they say. He’s ruining the party, they say, and he’ll ruin the country while he’s at it. But much of the criticism stops there. As we have seen this past week, if Trump is going to be stopped, it is going to be from within. Given this, and given that Republican Jews are well-positioned to take on Trump, why the alarming silence?
If you go to the website of the RJC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, you can click on links to contact your representative to complain about the Obama administration’s “flirtation” with the BDS movement and you can still read all about the votes on the Iranian nuclear deal. As for the man who is running for president, the one whose supporters recently raised their right hands and pledged to vote for him, the one who called minority protestors “disgusting,” the one who has openly mocked the disabled – nothing.
Even some Republican Jewish pundits are afraid to attack Trump without qualifying their attack. For example, a recent photograph showed Trumps supporters all raising their arms in what looked like a Nazi salute, but pundits are quick to remind us of a picture of Obama supporters holding their hands to their hearts and similarly pledging loyalty. And while many have agreed that years of race baiting and birther politics have created the movement that Trump wishes to ride all the way to the White House, we are told that we must also blame Obama’s cult of personality for Trump’s success.
No, Republican Jews were hoping to get into bed with Marco Rubio. Turns out though, that Senator Rubio still sleeps in a toddler bed. Give him eight years or so and he may be ready for prime time. In the meantime, there is no candidate they feel comfortable with (Ted Cruz scares just about everyone), and in the absence of a candidate, speaking out against Trump in an unqualified way, is a vote for Hillary.
Second, it’s possible that American Jews no longer see themselves as the target of these white nationalist groups. Trump has not openly attacked Jews in the race. In fact, his worst comments were made in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition, when he said that it was good to be in a room full of dealmakers and told them he knew they wouldn’t support him “because I don’t want your money.” Many American Jews of all political denominations see themselves as white and while they may abhor supremacist groups, they aren’t scared by them, even if a prominent white nationalist is on the record as saying that while he supports Trump, he is still bothered by Trump’s Jewish daughter.
Then there is the Ivanka factor. It is hard for many to believe that a man from the world of New York real estate, a man whose daughter converted to marry a Jew, a man whose grandchildren are being raised Jewish and will likely attend Jewish schools, could ever really be bad for the Jews. (After all, one tabloid showed a picture of Ivanka Trump and her husband walking down the street carrying flowers that turned out to be a lulav.) This man may be abhorrent, but how bad could he really be for us?
Finally, it’s possible that American Jews wonder if they have blown all their political capitol on the Iran deal. Prominent American Jews and the entire Jewish Republican establishment screamed themselves hoarse about the deal. While they distanced themselves from Mike Huckabee’s comment about President Obama marching Israelis to the door of ovens, now that there are actual Nazis in American presidential politics, now that we are talking about David Duke again, now that there are loyalty pledges and raised arms at rallies, where are all the Nazi analogies, and why can’t we make them without tempering them? Why aren’t our organizations doing more, saying more? Do we not have any voice left?
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From the Forward, Feb. 10, 2016: Standing on an improvised stage and wrapped in the black, red and gold German flag, Rotem Ahituv stared out at thousands of protesters spread below him and offered the demonstrators a kind of absolution that only someone like him could give.
“I am Jewish,” he told the crowd. “My family has lived here in Germany for 700 years, and I can tell you that I see here no Nazis.”
In a short and passionate speech that quickly went viral on the Internet, Ahituv, an Israeli immigrant to Germany, spoke about the threat of a Muslim takeover of Europe and declared that Germany’s Jews stand with Pegida, the populist right-wing movement that had organized the January 26 demonstration in Frankfurt.
The group, whose name is a German acronym for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, has organized similar demonstrations in cities across Germany. The largest have been in Dresden, Pegida’s base, where as many as 25,000 people have taken part. The protesters say they support Pegida’s call for more restrictive immigration policies and for the right to preserve and protect a Christian-Jewish dominated Western culture.
Ahituv told the crowd in Frankfurt that mainstream politicians and media, who have labeled Pegida as xenophobic, racist and even Nazi, are wrong and misleading. “Right here I see only Germans who love their country and want to save Germany from the Islam that wants to take over, to take your traditions, to take your beliefs, to take all of this down,” he said. “But we will not let it!”
In taking his stand, Ahituv was not just opposing Germany’s leadership and all its mainstream parties; he was standing, too, against Germany’s Jewish establishment. Communal leaders have strongly backed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s description of Pegida as a group led by individuals whose hearts “are cold and often full of prejudice, and even hate.”
Josef Schuster, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has condemned Pegida as an “immensely dangerous” movement that consists of neo-Nazis, parties from the far right and citizens who think that they can finally let out their racism and xenophobia.
“The Pegida-movement definitely doesn’t serve the interests of Germany’s Jewish community,” he wrote to the Forward in an email. “They want to exclude the Muslims and foreigners [from] German society. Somebody who roots against one minority is also able to root against other minorities”
Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, voiced the same fear. “Their actions — racially, religiously, socially, economically or otherwise justified,” he told the Forward, “are directed today against one group, and tomorrow against another.”
“Since the Second World War, Germany has been a place of democracy, pluralism and freedom,” Hadas-Handelsman noted. “These values should be treasured…. Those who incite racism and anti-Semitism use the democratic rules of the game to hurt democracy.”
But Ahituv is not the only Jew in Germany who thinks Pegida might be good for the Jews. The once unthinkable idea of a Jewish alliance with the German far right wing has gained some traction, especially following the recent terror attacks in Paris.
Jews are terribly afraid of the Muslims, according to Henryk Broder, a well-known journalist and outspoken personality in the German-Jewish community. Broder said German Jews should support the anti-Islamization movement.
“The Muslim community in Germany is the only threat to the Jews,” Broder said, adding that he does not agree with everything Pegida says, but thinks the Jewish establishment should listen to the movement instead of just demonizing it.
According to Rabbi Walter Rothschild, Pegida is raising important questions that mainstream politics has avoided. Rothschild, who is chief rabbi of Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state in northern Germany, said that there was a need in German society to discuss to what extent a minority should be allowed to maintain cultural norms that override core principles of Western civilization. Within the Muslim minority — which amounts to 5% of Germany’s population of 82 million — there are some communities, Rothschild said, that disregard Western values like women’s rights or freedom of speech and preach anti-Semitism.
“If you are going to have a mosque, then don’t teach hatred in it,” he said. “Yes, you can have a school, but don’t teach people to be terrorists. Yes, you can have your own political opinion about the Middle East, but don’t walk up and down [in street demonstrations] saying, ‘Kill the Jews!’ — which is what they did in Berlin.” Rothschild was referring to pro-Palestinian protests that took place in the German capital during Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in Gaza last summer.
”This is a cultural issue,” Rothschild concluded. “Jews in Europe are mostly on the side of modern Western values. There are some Muslims who are against modern Western values. Why should I support the right of Muslims to be against what I believe in?”
Much of Pegida’s popularity can be attributed to the organizers’ efforts to appeal to mainstream Germans. The movement has been strictly nonviolent, and its main battle cry is “We are the people!” — a slogan used by pro-democracy activists who protested against East Germany’s authoritarian regime in the 1980s.
From its early days, Pegida presented itself as pro-Jewish, and Israeli flags have been a common sight in demonstrations. When a photo showing Pegida’s founder, Lutz Bachmann, mugging in a Hitler costume was revealed, Bachmann was forced to resign from the movement’s leadership. Pegida’s spokesman, Christian Mayerhoff, recently gave an exclusive interview to the Israeli news website Ynet, in which he said Jews should stand together with Pegida “against Islamism and jihadism.”
Pegida’s pro-Jewish terminology is less about recruiting Jews — who account for less than 0.2% of Germany’s population — and more about advertising their regard for the boundaries of German political correctness. For some Pegida supporters, being Jew-friendly is a way to whitewash their radical ideology, explained Nathan Gelbart, chairman in Germany of Keren Hayesod, the Zionist fundraising organization.
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On Thursday, Governor Mitt Romney gave an anti-Trump speech in which he called upon Republicans to vote for anybody but frontrunner Donald Trump so as to produce a brokered convention. Romney claimed that Trump's economic plans would cause a recession. He said:
If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished. Let me explain why[.] … His proposed 35 percent tariff-like penalties would instigate a trade war and that would raise prices for consumers, kill our export jobs and lead entrepreneurs and businesses of all stripes to flee America.
On Friday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the U.S. goods and services trade deficit was $45.7 billion in January, up one billion dollars from $44.7 billion in December. January exports were $176.5 billion, $3.8 billion less than December exports. The reduction in U.S. exports predicted by Romney just happened, but Trump is not yet president. On February 26, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that U.S. economic growth slowed to a measly 1.0% during the last quarter of 2015, but Trump is not yet president. Billionaire investor Jim Rogers predicts a 100% chance of a U.S. recession within a year. If he is correct, a recession will occur, whether or not Trump is elected president.
It is true, as Romney claims, that Trump has called for tariff-like penalties to prevent American factories from moving abroad and also to bring currency-manipulating countries (including China, Japan, and Mexico) into trade-balancing negotiations. But would Trump's tariff threats slow U.S. economic growth? No! Exactly the opposite!
Trade-surplus countries have a lot more to lose from a trade war, so Trump's negotiations would likely succeed. For example, in 1981, Congress threatened trade-balancing import restrictions against trade-surplus Japan, which resulted in President Reagan negotiating "voluntary restraints" on Japanese automobile exports. As a result, Japanese automobile companies built factories in the United States that continue to employ American workers and to buy American-made auto parts, greatly increasing American incomes.
Positive Effects of Tariffs
Even if Trump's negotiations did not succeed, the American economy would benefit if he imposed his tariff-like penalties. First, government revenues would increase, which would reduce the budget deficit. Second, American consumers would be encouraged to switch their purchases to American producers and to the products of those countries, such as Brazil and Canada, that buy more from us when we buy more from them. America would become more attractive to foreign manufacturers and to American manufacturers who had moved their factories abroad. American factory production would increase, and so would the employment and incomes of American workers.
Romney's current attacks are ironic, because during the 2012 campaign, Romney talked tough on Chinese currency manipulation and other trade violations. Romney said that the U.S. should tell China, "You can't keep on holding down the value of your currency, stealing our intellectual property, counterfeiting our products, selling them around the world, even to the United States." But Romney's attack on Trump reveals Romney's stance as the sham that many of us suspected it was at the time. Trump is right to propose imposing significant tariffs on China precisely because of the litany of trade violations 2012 Romney claimed to be exercised about. But now Romney claims that if Trump does anything about China's rampant mercantilism, it will lead to a depression. Clearly he planned to go no farther in his China trade policy than another ineffectual round of asking China to stop its mercantilism.
In short, Romney doesn't appear to understand the economics of trade. Economic research about the "tariff-growth paradox," including one of our own academic papers, has found that tariffs hurt economic growth only when trade is relatively balanced. But periods of history during which world trade has been relatively balanced (such as 1840-1865 and 1950-1973) have been followed by periods during which world trade became more and more unbalanced. The world is once again experiencing a period of high trade imbalances (like the 1890s and the 1930s) in which trade-deficit countries can grow more rapidly simply by increasing their tariff rates. Anything that Trump does to balance the enormous U.S. trade deficits will be economically beneficial.
How Trade Deficits Have Been Hurting the U.S.
When countries run trade surpluses with the United States, they give us trade deficits. Those trade deficits reduce aggregate demand for American products, American incomes, and investment in American factories. In his speeches, Trump has focused upon the three countries that have large trade surpluses with the United States: China, Japan, and Mexico.
China. Despite running huge and growing trade surpluses with the United States, the Chinese government won't let its people buy American-made Boeing passenger jets, Cadillac SUVs, or Caterpillar tractors. Instead, the Chinese government forces Boeing, GM, and Caterpillar to build new factories to China in order to sell to the Chinese market. If Trump's negotiations force China to import as much from the United States as we import from them, American companies could locate new factories in the United States for shipment of their goods to China. Also, American farmers would export more meat to China. The benefit to American exporting industries and to American workers would be enormous.
Japan. Under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, Japan can continue to manipulate the yen-dollar exchange rate so it can grow its enormous trade surpluses with the United States. With the yen priced low compared to the dollar, the costs of production in Japan will continue to be low compared to the costs of production in the United States. These low costs give Japanese vehicle and electronic producers high profits, which they have plowed into R&D and robotics so that they can continue to gain market share in their competition with U.S. vehicle and electronic producers. If anybody but Trump is elected, American companies that produce in the U.S. will continue to lose market share in their competition with Japanese producers.
Mexico. Despite being part of the NAFTA free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, Mexico manipulates the dollar-peso exchange rate so that its businesses have lower costs than businesses that produce in the United States. As a result, American industries move factories to Mexico. If Trump succeeds in his negotiations with Mexico, U.S.-Mexico trade will move toward balance.
Effect of Trump's Trade Balancing on the U.S.
So if Trump succeeds, how much would his trade balancing help the U.S. economy? Doing so would cause businesses to locate new factories within the United States. Since R&D gets located near factories, new innovations would be invented in the United States. Since workers learn by doing, American workers would gain on-the-job skills, increasing their pay over time. Since American workers buy services from American service providers, American entrepreneurs would prosper. In sum, Americans would get more pay, more factories, more R&D, more innovations, and a more prosperous country.
Trump is the only candidate who has consistently opposed TPP. Although he voted against fast-tracking it on final passage, Senator Cruz had helped TPP get momentum by co-authoring an op-ed with Paul Ryan in its favor. The other Republican candidates have always supported TPP, and Hillary Clinton was part of the administration that negotiated it. All are members of the Republican/Democrat establishment consensus, which supports overseas production in return for campaign contributions.
And TPP is not just about trade. It is also part of the open borders agenda, to which the establishments of both political parties subscribe. Under TPP, foreign service providers will be able to recruit cheap workers in Mexico and Malaysia and bring them legally to the United States to take American service-sector jobs. The destruction of the American middle class will accelerate. The popularity of socialist candidate Bernie Sanders tells us where this is going.
The economic case for Donald Trump is clear. If any other candidate is elected, U.S. economic growth will continue to stagnate in the 1% to 2% range. In contrast, Trump's trade policies would return the United States to its normal 3% per year growth. If any other candidate is elected, median U.S. family income will continue to decrease, but if Trump is elected, it will return to its normal increase. Under Trump, the U.S. middle class, a bulwark against socialism, will gradually be restored.
The Richmans co-authored the 2014 book Balanced Trade: Ending the Unbearable Costs of America's Trade Deficits, published by Lexington Books, and the 2008 book Trading Away Our Future, published by Ideal Taxes Association.
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Steve Sailer writes: The stability seen in the presidential elections of 2000–2012 due to the predictability of identity politics existed largely because—while identity politics among the fringes of the population have been strongly encouraged—the core’s natural ethnocentrism had been channeled into a few respectable and futile outlets.
For example, it’s acceptable for white Christians to strongly back Likud’s identity politics for Israeli Jews. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu receives rapturous support from Republican gentiles. But it is not at all reputable for them to look for their own Israeli-style American nationalist to stand up for their own interests.
This fear among elites, especially among Jewish elites, of Americans getting their own Israeli-style leadership has led Trump to be denounced as an American Hitler. But a more plausible analogy is that the wily entrepreneur has sniffed out an untapped niche in the market for an American Netanyahu.
100% African = diverse
100% Asian = diverse
100% White = “needs diversity”
White places will be “diverse enough” when all the white people are gone. Isn’t there a word for targeted racial replacement and cultural g- of an ethnic group?
* In Kansas City tonight we have an illegal who just murdered four people. He was apparently arrested last September for a driving violation, but ICE dropped the ball and he was released.
* Trump would be the American Netanyahu except for his lack of army service and combat experience. But:
Build a fence to stop illegals? Check
Monetary and trade policy designed to secure exports, and maximum employment and growth at home? Check
Get along with anyone who wants to get along with you, including Russia and China ? Check
No nonsense with the Muslims? Check
Favor the demographic of the country as it exists? Check
The lack of army service though should not impede Trump here though. It isn’t as if Hillary and Bernie or Cruz have any.
* Wow the jews sure played their Hitler card early, its not even April. What happens if Trump withdraws and someone further right takes his place as an alternative to the two faced system? Are they going to call him the Pharoah Ramses?
I thought Hitler was their TRUMP Card.
* According to a Jewish friend who keeps a close eye on Israel, Trump is favored by 61 percent of the population there.
On NPR’s “On the Media,” Nate Silver, who has contributed to that program since this primary season began, was asked why he got Trump so wrong. His excuse: there is a major political realignment going on. If Trump makes it to the general, he could turn blue states red. Therefore, Silver’s standard way of analyzing races is no longer relevant. As he observed, on a checklist of “what would make a candidate unelectable,” Trump checks most of the boxes yet triumphs nonetheless.
* Nate Silver made his reputation by studying and analyzing various polls back in 2012. He abandoned that method this cycle. Had he been paying attention and using his old method, he surely would have noticed that the polls strongly and consistently favored Trump since last summer when the Republican debates started and Trump started hitting on some popular themes. (He also showed clearly that he lacks the judgment to be a good theater critic. I don’t know how anybody could watch those debates from the beginning and not recognize that Trump stood head and shoulders above his competitors and made them all look small and insignificant by comparison, regardless of what you thought of his political positions. That’s called stage presence.) I think it was Nate Silver’s refusal to believe the polls (which is pretty funny considering his reputation was built on his successful reading of the polls when they favored Obama) and his distaste for Trump’s positions that have reduced Silver to a relatively meaningless figure on the political scene. Anybody who has been investing in the stock market for a number of years is familiar with the phenomenon, a guy who lucks out and makes a good call on the market or a stock and is immediately placed in the Pantheon alongside Warren Buffett. Joe Granville, anyone? The really good ones make good calls consistently over a long period of time, even if they make an occasional bum call along the way.
* The first law of politics could well be the Conservation of Hitler. So Trump is now Hitler. Hafez al Assad used to be Hitler. Before him it was Khaddafi, I think. Or maybe he was only Mussolini. However I’m pretty certain that Saddam Hussein was once Hitler. Of course, once Hitler was Hitler, but he wasn’t very good at it, so they had to find another one.
Tag! You’re Hitler!
* Trump is an example of a gentile who assimilated to NY Jewish culture. Maybe that’s what the US needs, maybe not. But one thing I detect about the anti-Trump hatred is some of the “it’s all behind me” snobbishness of deracinated Jews who assimilated to some fictitious WASP ideal.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all if unapologetic ethnic Jews had an affinity for Trump.
* I’d guess in his day to day life going back decades a good quarter of the people Trump interacts with in business are Jewish, as well as many people he grew up with. In that sense he’s more culturally Jewish than I am, having grown up in the midwest and south in towns that were less than 1% Jewish. “Schlonged” is not a word I’d ever use, and to the extent I know any yiddish slang like this I got it from TV.
It may also be way Trump is so blase about offending the hypersensitive neocon Jews, who are very little like the Jews he interacts with.
As far as accents, secular Jews my age who grew up in Manhattan speak normal General American English, but Long Islanders and NJ natives still have the “cauwfee” accent.
Trump’s got the right instincts on trade, but the Richmans can give him an intellectual framework for it, like Sessions did on immigration. And we know Trump listens to Ann Coulter, so this could be good.
* I remember being told by the media that Rock n’ Roll was over and that Disco was going to rule forever. As Disco became an increasingly Gay and elitist genre (remember the “Velvet Ropes”, door bouncers, guest lists) working class and young people looking for a cheap night out rebelled against it.
* And why does nobody ever mention Dave Brat’s win over Eric Cantor in 2014? Ten to one that’s what gave Trump the idea. Not a single analysis of the Donald that I’ve read has ever mentioned this.
* Rewatching HBO’s Rome, it is incredibly clear that Trump is a non-military version of that show’s construction of Julius Caesar. At one point in series, the young Augustus, criticizing the Catonian politics of the day remarks “the aristocrats own all the land, people beg and starve in the streets of Rome and the slaves have taken all the labor from ordinary Romans.” It’s a bit of stretch to compare it to today’s environment, but it sounds somewhat similar.
It’s also interesting on the show how nearly the entire branch of Roman elites is against Caesar while the lower classes universally love him. In another scene, Cato declares that the Pompeian side has nearly all the men of substance in Rome as opposed to Caesar having the support of Plebs. As the show progresses, increasing numbers of elites kiss the ring of Caesar as they see his popularity is unstoppable.
Clearly the show take a lot of liberties with the historical accounts we have of Caesar. However, most histories depict Caesar’s politics and standing in the Roman Republic as being similar. So, it would seem apt to compare Trump in many ways to Caesar.
* Netanyahu gets most of his support from the poorer half of the Israeli population, the relatively low IQ Mizrahi of Middle Eastern origin, whom the European-Ashkenazi elites look down upon with a certain amount of disdain and distaste. So that part rings true.
I’m waiting to see how many African- and Hispanic-American voters Trump will be able to attract to the Republican Party. Let Hillary play the race card. We may be seeing a fundamentals realignment of American politics based on class interest instead of ethnic identity. In which case the Democrats may find themselves in the political wilderness for a long, long time to come — sort of what happened to the Republicans after Roosevelt.
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* I’m actually glad to see that Donald Trump carries a gun, but the threat to his security these days is so great that if he has to use his gun, his security has already failed. I hope that his aircraft is guarded around-the-clock and his food and drink are tested for poison.
And how close is some of this talk that “under no circumstances must Donald Trump be allowed to become President,” to Henry II’s possible authorization of the asssassination of Thomas Beckett: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
* I’m sure Trump is quite aware of the elites’ desire to stop him by any means necessary. But even if he is stopped by bullet or ballet, his mark in American politics has been extraordinary and irreversible. Trump is not our last chance but our first chance. He has inspired many and will continue to do regardless of what happens from here on out.
* I’m skeptical of future republicans imitating him and duplicating his success.
Trump is bringing in “the white working class vote” ™ and while his positions on immigration and trade are obviously a key reason, another key reason is that lots of these ordinarily non-political (but pissed off) people had already heard of Trump. So they paid attention to what he was saying. If some nobody says the same stuff, I’m not sure it gets much traction.
* The goal of this empire’s elite establishment is not to limit the elites’ power to do anything they want, but to increase that power. This implies both a decrease in the power of less privileged citizens to protect themselves from this establishment and a constant, more general erosion of such citizens’ rights. The ideal the elites are aiming for is something like pre-revolutionary France but with only three classes: the elite establishment nobility; the intelligentsia/managerial class; and the rest of us, aka the peasantry.
* Private ownership of firearms is virtually impossible in Bermuda, but when Bloomberg vacationed there, his bodyguards were allowed to carry them. Of course, as a certified elitist, the rules don’t apply to him.
* Trump is our last peaceful chance.
Take a hard look at what Trump has done – he’s unmasked the oligarchs for millions of Americans, who now see establishment as the enemies they are. And what’s scary the oligarchs have dropped any and all pretense of being for the people.
Imagine how bold they will be with Hillary in the White House. I don’t want to imagine that.
If Hitlerly gets in, our goose is cooked. The oligarchs will make sure another Trump or Huey Long never arises and they will drop the hammer on us proles. It would not take much for Hillery to muzzle the 1st amendment European style and passing amnesty with the help of Ryan and McConnell so they can really power up race replacement.
Passing TPP will be the final nail in our coffin.
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* Imagine ALL the candidates being among a couple hundred people lost in a wilderness with little chance of rescue any time soon. Who would emerge as leader/s and who would be sent to gather firewood?
* Two huge factors are the FBI investigation, and Hillary’s health. Unlike many, I think there’s a good chance that she either gets indicted, or if not, that some disgruntled FBI source leaks the details.
Her health is also very questionable. She had another coughing fit at the last debate. CNN helpfully moved the camera away at the time, but in the background you could see her continuing to cough. Is that a side effect of some sort of drug interaction? I believe she’s on thyroid medication and blood thinners for clots.
Recently, the press was forbidden from even watching her board a plane, up one of those old-fashioned wheeled steps. Does she have trouble climbing steps on her own? I wonder if we are seeing another FDR-style health cover-up.
And by the way, she has not released her medical records, despite her claims. Just a letter from her doctor, which of course is not the same thing.
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* A question I’ve often wanted to ask is what kind of US Constitution would people here write if given the chance to do so, assuming the country to be as it is today, e.g. same ethnic composition of the population, etc.
I’d say a provision for each race to be entitled only to the wealth it creates (however it may be redistributed among themselves) would be vital, along with complete freedom of association. Also, immigration (if any) to be decided by plebiscite.
* I’ve given your idea some thought, since it is obvious that we are no longer genuinely governed by the Constitution of 1787 as amended, but by some version of the British constitution: a mixture of documents, judicial decisions and traditions. I find myself in reluctant agreement with Ruth Bader Ginsburg; the present U.S. Constitution is probably not a good model anyway. It was fine for a nation of 3 million racially homogeneous persons (not counting blacks and Indians) where voting was by white male landowners. But it is increasingly obvious that it is unworkable; the farce of “shutting down the government” in cases of Presidential-Congressinal impasse is an obvious example. The larger question is whether the United States is itself sustainable as a nation of fifty states and numerous racial groups and sub-groups? I don’t think so, so what other models are there?
George Kennan had an idea (in Around the Cragged Hill) for a dissolution of the present Union and its reconstitution into about eight mostly autonomous republics, each of which would be strong enough for self-defense, but none of which would be powerful enough to interfere outside its borders. In light of the increasing racial diversity of the U.S. since Kennan published his idea, I’ve thought more in terms of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Holy Roman Empire; largely self-governing ethnic nationalities with an overall loyalty to an elected or hereditary sovereign. Drawing the borders of the ethnic nationalities is, of course, tricky, as it was especially for the Hapsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Had it survived World War I, it would probably have become the Austro-Hungarian-Slavic Triple Monarchy. The United States would divide less neatly, with large enclaves in the “wrong” racial nation–always a recipe for trouble.
I admit that all my ideas run into trouble when one considers the division of nuclear weapons (not a problem for the Holy Roman or Austro-Hungarian Empires)–not only who gets them, but how is the capability to maintain them and their delivery systems controlled. Perhaps that could be one of the function of the elected imperial sovereign.
* It’s International Women’s Day!
Here’s to strong independent women leaving everyone the fuck alone by being so independent and strong that they don’t need a UN holiday to proclaim it and give out scholarships and cash prizes based solely on owning a vagina which is so difficult to achieve that only 51% of mankind has ever done it!
* Man, noticing patterns can get really depressing sometimes…
Only when I Googled the plagiarist involved did I discover that he was black. Worst suspicions, confirmed!
* A German water park has decided that the best way to deal with sex attacks by Muslim migrants is to make itself more like the Muslim countries the migrants came from in the first place. Because Afghanistan is such a great place to be a woman.
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* Have y’all seen that Obama is skipping Nancy Reagan’s funeral to appear at South by Southwest? That guy has no class.
* I’m starting to believe in the new Trump coalition. I was surprised to hear some Muslim store keepers supporting him, and last night I went into a store and the Indian owner complemented me by saying I looked like a “young Donald Trump.”
* Here is what Trump released today – glad to see they are getting it together.
“Record rates of immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for U.S. workers. Pew polling shows 83 percent of all voters – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – think immigration should be frozen or reduced. The biggest beneficiaries of allowing fewer foreign workers into our country would be minority workers, including all immigrants now living here, who are competing for jobs, benefits and community resources against record waves of foreign workers. Limiting job competition would reopen pathways to middle-class stability and shrink welfare rolls. In addition, it would relieve overcrowding in our schools and hospitals that afflict our poorest communities. Yet, Senators Cruz and Rubio have led the charge for even higher immigration rates – a policy supported by only 7 percent of the Republican electorate. When I am President we will listen to the people – not the special interests – and get immigration numbers under control, as the voters have demanded.”
Where is the media?
* For a while now, Limbaugh has been saying that the Republican establishment doesn’t believe things have gone seriously wrong in this country. They think politics should be conducted in the usual mealy-mouthed manner, making lofty promises that won’t be kept (but preserved as issues for the next campaign) and candidates taking care not to offend anyone.
Then there are people like myself who believe that we’re battling for our national survival on the edge of a precipice. We can’t afford to give ground. We can’t pretend if we lose this election, maybe the voters will see things our way next time. It’s too late for the Mitt Romneys, John McCains, and Bob Doles. No more General McClellans, waiting for “ideal conditions” to take on the enemy. We need someone to attack, someone who has already burned his bridges behind him. We would like it if he were a courteous, well-informed, articulate spokesman for our views, but that person hasn’t come along since 1992, when Pat Buchanan lost the primary to Bush I. Perhaps the voters weren’t ready yet for Pat or perhaps Pat just didn’t excite them. We can’t afford to wait any longer for another courteous, well-informed, articulate candidate. We’ll settle for the brash, rude, egotistical vulgarian. He has shown he’s willing to fight and at this point that’s all that counts.
* LOST IN AMERICA sums up the Neocon mentality. A perverse combo of radicalism, bourgeois materialism, urban ambition, and sham paean to Americana. In the end, the guy returns to NY. Neocons see the hoi polloi of American Conservatism and wanna ‘go back’.
* The media is doing what they’re told – trashing Trump using the issue that works. He supports the goals and interests of white people (among others), and that makes him racist, racist, racist.
This past week has been a disaster for his campaign. I hate to say it, but I think that they finally got him.
* Trump is light on theory … Which leaves him with pragmatism. Not perfect, but common sense counts plus balls is cutting through a lot of crap. He has excellent advisers but needs a coach to tone down the narcissism. (Do we really want to hear about his businesses once he’s in the White House?) Admittedly, it’d be infinitely preferable to Hillary’s shrieking.
* I’ve also interesting encounters with immigrant Trump supporters.
Last week a woman named Tatjana picked up my baby and me from the gym. I was glad it was a woman, since our driver earlier that morning was either Osama bin Laden or his twin. Scary! The conversation turned to Tatjana’s origin in Macedonia (or Yugoslavia, as she put it … she immigrated here 30 years ago). She mentioned that she was planning a trip to Europe over the summer to see “what was going on there.” I guessed correctly that she was referring to the migrant crisis and asked her what she thought of it. She was hesitant at first, clearly not wanting to “vice signal” her xenophobia and islamophobia. When I identified myself as a migrant skeptic, she unloaded. Tatjana wanted to see Europe one last time before it was destroyed by another Muslim invasion. Pointed out that she, as a Macedonian, appreciated the threat of Islam since her country had suffered the Muslim yoke for 500 years (as part of the Ottoman Empire). Stressed the horrible treatment of women under Islam, and the flourishing of radical Islam terrorism. Supports Trump mainly because of his proposed ban of Muslims.
My impression was that Uber drivers were supposed to be younger and whiter than your average cab driver. Uptown is full of Arab cab drivers who gives me the creeps, and I started using Uber in part to avoid them. But half of my Uber drivers have been Arab. I’ve had only one natural born Uber driver. An American black who was born in Chicago but lives in Urbana. He drives two hours every day up to Chicago to be an Uber driver. Used to work at a factory that made the styrofoam cups for McDonald’s Coffee. But the factory closed, and now he’s doing odd jobs and Ubering. Said it’s impossible to find work in Urbana. I wish I had thought of a nice way of asking him who he was supporting in the presidential election.
Here are five questions CNN needs to ask Donald Trump:
1. You have said that when you retweeted the tweets of avowed white supremacists, you did so inadvertently. What steps have you taken to make sure this doesn’t happen again?
2. Why do you think your campaign is so popular among groups and web sites that espouse racist anti-Mexican, anti-black and anti-Semitic ideas?
3. The head of the ADL has said your campaign has energized white supremacist groups. Does that concern you? What will you do about it?
4. FBI statistics show that white supremacist and militia groups have killed more Americans on American soil over the past decade than have Islamic-inspired attacks. What will you do in a Trump presidency to combat these groups?
5. You have two Jewish grandchildren. Your campaign was just endorsed by David Duke, who has espoused vicious anti-Semitism for years. Why do you think he’s drawn to your candidacy? What is your message to David Duke?
If I were Donald J. Trump, I’d reply to Rob Eshman:
* What’s a white supremacist? How is that different or worse from black supremacists and Jewish supremacists and Muslim supremacists and Japanese supremacists? Were the founders of the United States of America white supremacists? They only made provision for citizenship for white people of good character.
* Harry Truman wrote: “I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.” He also referred to the Blacks on the White House staff as “an army of coons.” Was President Harry Truman a white supremacist?
* Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one [whites], preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immovable veil of black, which covers all the emotions of the other race?” Was Jefferson a white supremacist and a hater?
* In Federalist Paper #2, John Jay wrote about America: “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* Alexander Hamilton did not want more immigrants, even from Europe: “the influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.” Sounds like an American supremacist to me.
* White supremacist Abraham Lincoln said: “I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.”
* Jewish labor leader Samuel Gompers said: “It must be clear to every thinking man and woman that while there is hardly a single reason for the admission of Asiatics, there are hundreds of good and strong reasons for their absolute exclusion.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* President James Garfield wrote: “[I have] a strong feeling of repugnance when I think of the negro being made our political equal and I would be glad if they could be colonized, sent to heaven, or got rid of in any decent way.” Sounds like a white supremacist to me.
* Why do you think Democratic politicians receive so much support from communists? Does it not bother you that communists have murdered more people than those espousing any other political ideology? Why do you think so many Jews became communists (about a million Jews in America by the 1950s were either communists or socialists)? Why did many Jews support the rise of communism in Russia and Europe and America?
* Why do you think you are drawn to so many people who want to deny cohesion to whites? Why don’t whites have the same rights and group interests as other groups such as blacks, Jews, Muslims and Mexicans?
Every group, every people in the world thinks it is the best. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. Yet only “white supremacists” get slurred for this quintessentially human emotion. Why don’t black supremacists and Jewish supremacists and Japanese supremacists get regularly attacked by the media?
I don’t expect people to care about those outside of their group. When they do, and it seems like WASPs have done this more than anybody, that’s lovely.
Whenever you read the term “white supremacist,” you know the writer has an agenda and is on an emotional bender, often acting out a tribal addiction. Every group thinks it’s awesome, but only white advocates get tagged with the slur “white supremacist.”
According to Jewish Journal Editor Rob Eshman: “When you say divisive, nasty things, you empower divisive, nasty people.”
Well, what is nasty depends upon the perspective of the viewer. For some people, the Torah is very nasty. Homosexuals, for instance, have reason to think of the Torah as nasty. Other people similarly condemned by Torah have reason to think the Torah is nasty. From the perspective of Judaism, Christianity is idolatry. From the perspective of Christianity, Judaism is a false religion. From the perspective of a secular humanist, both religions are false. Aren’t those judgments nasty?
Onkelos son of Kolonikos … went and raised Titus from the dead by magical arts, and asked him; ‘Who is most in repute in the [other] world? He replied: Israel. What then, he said, about joining them? He said: Their observances are burdensome and you will not be able to carry them out. Go and attack them in that world and you will be at the top as it is written, Her adversaries are become the head etc.; whoever harasses Israel becomes head. He asked him: What is your punishment [in the other world]? He replied: What I decreed for myself. Every day my ashes are collected and sentence is passed on me and I am burnt and my ashes are scattered over the seven seas. He then went and raised Balaam by incantations. He asked him: Who is in repute in the other world? He replied: Israel. What then, he said, about joining them? He replied: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. He then asked: What is your punishment? He replied: With boiling hot semen. He then went and raised by incantations Jesus [in Vilna edition: “the sinners of Israel”; “Jesus” appears in Munich 95 and Vatican 140 manuscripts and “he went and brought up Jesus the Nazarene” (Editions or MSs: Vatican 130)]. He asked them: Who is in repute in the other world? They replied: Israel. What about joining them? They replied: Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches the apple of his eye. He said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement. Observe the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the other nations who worship idols. It has been taught: Note from this incident how serious a thing it is to put a man to shame, for God espoused the cause of Bar Kamza and destroyed His House and burnt His Temple.
— Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 56b-57a
So when the Talmud pictures Jesus — the god of the goyim — suffering for eternity in boiling hot excrement, is that hate speech? Asking for a friend.
I’m not arguing that Jews and Judaism are bad or nasty or bigoted. I’m just arguing that it is normal, natural and healthy for all strongly identifying in-groups such as Jews and Muslims and whites and blacks and latinos and asians to have suspicion and negative feelings towards out-groups.
There are six things that the Torah commands us to remember. Optimally, these verses should be recited out loud each day and their meanings should be considered…
3. Amalek’s Evil Attack Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey when you left Egypt. They met you on the way and ambushed those who were lagging behind. You were tired and exhausted, but they did not fear God. Therefore, when Hashem your God relieves you from your enemies in the land that He will give you to possess, you must erase the memory of Amalek from beneath heaven. Do not forget. (Devarim 25:17-19) Amalek is different from other nations that attacked Israel in that we are commanded to eradicate them. Why should they be punished more harshly than Egypt, which oppressed the Jews for hundreds of years? One reason is because Amalek “did not fear God.” They dared to make war not just with the Jews, but with God Himself!
I am having a freiliche Purim and a great chuckle over those 75,000 Hamanites who met their doom at the hands of the Jews. Puts me in the mood for Passover, and the termination of all the first born sons of Egypt.
Chaim Amalek: You are sick, sick. I wish you had stayed in porn and left the Yidden to daven and shuckle on their own.
Luke Ford: Should not the Museum of Tolerance have an exhibit or two on the people of Amalek?
Chaim Amalek: More sick, wicked thoughts. There is a world of difference between killing an Amalekite toddler as God in our Holy Torah commands us to do, and killing a rabbi because a wicked man decides to do this. One is a commandment from God – what we Yidden call a mitzvah — and the other is craziness from a goy.
Chaim Amalek: I say no apologies. The Museum of Tolerance should actively embrace all of Torah, including the very clear biblical commandment that the Amalek People be annihilated, branch and root.
Luke Ford: Should Jews become as tolerant of Amalekite babies as the goyim are of Jewish babies? Live and let live perhaps? Asking for a friend.
Alex Trivunovic: It would be hilarious if all this time, Luke was just a catspaw for Jews who want to ask questions they’re afraid to ask their Rabbi.
Luke Ford: While Jews have been celebrating Purim like mad, my poor friend Chaim Amalek has had to spend the day in hiding. #StopTheHate
David: There’s no rational explanation for anti-Amalekitism.
Jewish Journal Editor Rob Eshman finds it “frightening” that Trump gets Tea Party support. Frightening for whom? Not every group of people in America have equal reason to fear Donald Trump. So should Jews be most fearful? Or how about blacks or Muslims or latinos?
Here is a good comment posted after Eshman’s essay: “Blacks had assembled together to support Obama, and it was not considered racist. Jews have assembled together to support Sanders, and it is not considered bigoted. Women have assembled together to support Hillary, and it is not considered sexist.
So why is it that Whites are considered all of those things for supporting a White candidate?”
Responding Comment: “Two wrongs don’t make a right James. Try again? You support a man who feels that anyone who isn’t a European Christian is somehow 3/5th’s a person if that. Whose supporters like Ann Coulter feel that anyone who isn’t a WASP like her should be deported if they don’t do what they want as she said with Nikky Haley. Never mind that she was born in South Carolina. Her parents are Indian Immigrants. You could disagree with her politics but what gives you the right to claim she should be deported unless you are trying to rewrite American history. That the USA is only for European Christians. That is wrong James. That isn’t the USA.”
Rejoinder:
I reread my post several times and failed to see where I said anyone, especially a US Citizen, should be deported. Of Course, Abe Lincoln did support such deportation.
“I have urged the colonization of the “blacks” back to Africa, and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan. There is no room for two distinct races of White men in America, much less for two distinct races of Whites and Blacks. I can think of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the “black” into our social and political life as our equal. Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the “black” under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can never do here. We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable.”– Abraham Lincoln’s speech during the signing of Emancipation Proclamation of Sept. 1862
(note: due to censorship, it was necessary to change the original word used to “black”).
But now let’s take a gander at our ole’ US Constitution…
*Article 1 Section 2 considered slaves as just 3/5th a person for representation. (Must be where you got that 3/5th thingy, huh?)
*Article 1 Section 9 REQUIRED for the slave trade to continue and the institution of slavery be reinstated in all States until at least 1808; (some 20 years after ratification).
*Article 4 Section 2 REQUIRED for all escaped slaves to be returned to their master.
*Amendment 13 still ALLOWS for slavery providing that it is as punishment issued by the Court.
Well Doggies. Sounds like that is the good ole’ USA after all. But to be fair, we had a civil war over some of these issues, so let’s take a look there…
We’ll begin with a peek at that mean old Confederacy…
*The 1st Black Regiment to ever exist in America was the Confederate 1st Louisiana Native Guard, consisting of 1,135 black infantrymen and 14 Companies.
*The 1st memorial to ever give recognition to any black soldier in the US is the Confederate Memorial in Arlington Cemetery. If you look at the images engraved, you will see a Confederate soldier placing his child in the arms of a black woman as he marches off to battle and black soldiers marching in rank with White confederate soldiers.
*Black Confederates received the same pay as their White counterparts, were provided uniforms when provided to White soldiers and carried banners. In Contrast, Union black soldiers were paid nearly just half of their White counterparts, had to purchase their own uniforms and were not allowed to carry the Union banner; only a bare pole.
*No slave was ever brought to the US on a Confederate ship or under the Confederate banner. (The CSA Consttution forbade it).
Gee wilikers. Here I am making them sound rather considerate. Better bring up them there Union folks now before Manassas Creek starts runnin’ red again…
*What does Washington DC, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey and Delaware all have in common? They were all Union States, territories and capitol that continued to have slavery during and after the Civil War.
*Slavery ended in the Confederacy in May 1865. Slavery was not abolished in the Union until Dec. 1865; some 7 months after it ended in the South.
*The Union offered to pass a Constitutional Amendment to forever protect the right to own slaves if the Confederacy would peacefully return to the Union.
In his first Inaugural Speech, on March 4, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln approved of a Constitutional Amendment passed through the Union Congress that would guarantee permanent slavery in the United States. Lincoln stated in his Speech, “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. Holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”
The Corwin Amendment read, :”No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”
BTW: Those “Jim Crowe” laws that extended through the 1960’s? That was done by the US government, not the Confederacy (which ended back in 1865)
Your intentional ignorance pertaining to the unique variances of our respective races due to the phenotypes which define the genetically differentiated human populations indicates to me that you have no interest in developing an anthropological appreciation of the accomplishments and sacrifices made by these specific populations but rather embraces a desire to undermine such advances by subscribing yourself to the popular ideologies of political correctness.
Comment: “ISIS and Black Lives Matter pose a far greater threat to society than the KKK. They aren’t in the news for beheadings or riots. This article is just fanning the flames of racism. Stop it.”
Comment: “Talk about guilt by association!! Trump is admittedly – even thankfully – not always politically correct in his statements. Especially some of his off-the-cuff statements are outright stupid, but to imply that he is a white supremacist like in the headline is totally absurd. The author fails to cite a single “white supremacist” position taken by Trump. All the author has to offer is the standard list of right-wing nutcases. Of course, if someone on the conservative side were to use such cheap tactic to criticize Clinton or Sanders because they have the support of radical Islamist tolerant leftist groups, the author would blow a gasket.”
Comment:
Scrolling through these comments, it’s nice to see the good, honest, incredibly intelligent white people of America waking up to what is really going on, here.
Yeah, that’s right, I said “good, honest white people”, because somehow that message seems to have gotten lost in the SUCCESSFUL attempts of whites to help others empower themselves.
And this is the thanks we get from the Jewish press, huh? Classy, guys. Really, really classy. You know that Americans welcomed European Jews in when they were in trouble, right? Or have you all forgotten so quickly? Don’t answer that, it’s pretty clear to us that you have.
Donald Trump has a white supremacist problem. The only question is whether he will ignore it, deny it or do something about it.
Trump has changed a lot of the rules in the campaign game, but one law he hasn’t broken is this: When you say divisive, nasty things, you empower divisive, nasty people.
Organizations that track hate crimes against Jews and others have been following what we can call the Trump Effect for the past year, and have compelling evidence that it is real.
White nationalist leaders including Jared Taylor and former Klansman David Duke have endorsed Trump. On Vanguard News Network, the largest white supremacist website, Trump is regularly referred to as “Glorious Leader.” Bloggers compare him to Hitler, treating him like the Second Coming of the Third Reich. In January, William Johnson, leader of the white supremacist American Freedom Party, paid for a series of robocalls in Iowa in support of Trump. Johnson convened a 2015 white power political event in Bakersfield at which Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Youth Network gave a speech blaming Jews for destroying the white race.
“Donald Trump’s demonizing statements about Latinos and Muslims have electrified the radical right,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote in his group’s 2015 report.
Instead of distancing himself from such supporters, Trump has retweeted their hate posts — then denied knowing he did so. He has used neo-Nazi statistics on black-on-white hate crime as his own, and has cited bogus polls by anti-Muslim hate groups, like ACT for America, claiming that a quarter of American Muslims support violent jihadists.
Jonathan Greenblatt, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, put it to me as judiciously as possible.
“It’s very worrisome to see the convergence of that crowd and a mainstream candidate,” he said.
Yes, of course, Trump’s popularity extends far beyond the fringe. He has support among great numbers of fairly mainstream Tea Party types — something that is no less frightening. And there are plenty of people who disagree with his hateful statements but love his non-P.C. approach, or just find him entertaining. They don’t care whether Trump has the answers, they just care that he has the attitude.
All that is scary enough, but understandable in the context of an electorate on both the left and right that is fed up with politics as usual.
But what’s beyond the pale are the truly sick, dangerous forces Trump has unleashed, the poison he has uncorked.
“His platform’s great and just the right mix, this is the will of the majority,” wrote a frequent blogger on Vanguard News Network who goes by the name Joe Smith. “And that’s why ALL the Jews are boycotting him (Univision, Comcast/NBC, Macy’s, all owned by Jews). Jews’ attack dogs are also getting into the fray making their masters happy.”
There have always been right-wing voices that veer toward outright racism and feed the anti-Semitic fantasies of sad, white men. The ’80s brought us Pat Buchanan, for instance.
But two things set Trump far apart from his predecessors: the rise of talk radio and social media, which provide an unlimited echo chamber for hate, and Trump himself, who with his money and marketing genius, has now all but run away with the nomination.
Meanwhile, the revitalized network of white supremacists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis that Trump inspires poses as big if not bigger threa to the average American than ISIS. Over the past two decades, these hate groups have planned and/or perpetrated dozens of attacks, killings and plots against the Jewish community, among others. According to a report in The New York Times, Islam-inspired terror attacks accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 1/2 years. Meanwhile, right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, with 254 fatalities. While some sources dispute how these numbers are tallied, a survey of 372 police and sheriff’s departments nationwide found that 74 percent of the law officers view antigovernment violence as the greatest source of violent extremism, while 39 percent listed “Al Qaeda-inspired” violence.
Nearly all media outlets have given Trump a pass for helping to stoke these fires. Not one debate moderator has confronted Trump about it.
So, who will hold Trump accountable?
It won’t be the Republican establishment, which for seven fat years was more than happy to let Trump build his political brand and undermine the Democrats by stoking racist theories about President Barack Obama’s nationality. It won’t be Jewish Republican donors, now moving on from Jeb Bush. Most of those won’t have anything to do with Trump, and in any case, he doesn’t need anyone’s money or advice. And it won’t be the Democrats, whose worries will just be dismissed as partisan.
That leaves only one possible source of hope.
Trump’s grandchildren.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism before marrying real estate scion Jared Kushner in 2009, so she and her two children, Arabella, who is 4, and Joseph, who is 2, are Jewish.
Does Trump understand he is inspiring the very people who want to see his grandchildren dead? Does he remember the 2014 attack on a Jewish Community Center in Kansas that left three people dead, perpetrated by a devoted contributor to the Vanguard News Network, the same network that refers to Trump as its “Glorious Leader”? Why is Trump not publicly rejecting them? Why is he not backtracking on the divisive racial comments he’s made, the ones that bring these lowlifes and rejects firmly into his camp?
Call me naive, but I still believe in the power of a grandchild to melt a grandparent’s heart. I believe that one day soon, Trump will look into Arabella’s and Joseph’s eyes and see what a dangerous path he’s on. We’re counting on you, kids. Good luck.
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