Newsweek: While there is no evidence that child abuse is any more likely to occur in ultra-Orthodox schools than in public or secular institutions, stories like Reizes’s—an alleged abuser sheltered and victims unwilling to talk for fear of losing the only way of life they know—are common in the Hasidic school system. The many former students, advocates, sociologists, social workers and survivors interviewed by Newsweek, along with recordings, documents, public filings and personal emails that Newsweek obtained, place the blame on a confluence of factors: widespread sexual repression, a strong resistance to the secular world, and, most important, a power structure designed to keep people from speaking up about abuse.
Set on a leafy stretch of Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Oholei Torah is one of the most important institutions in the Chabad movement’s global yeshiva network and one of the largest of the dozens of Chabad schools in Brooklyn, with nearly 2,000 students at any given time. But stop any middle-school-age kid in the school’s hallways, and he—there are no female students—will likely know nothing of world history, won’t be able to do long division and will speak only rudimentary English—even though he’s growing up in the biggest city in the United States.
Oholei Torah conducts its seven-plus daily hours of religious lessons mostly in Yiddish. According to more than a dozen former students across three decades, it provides almost no lessons in science, math, English grammar or history. (The school did not respond to queries about its curriculum.) Many of these students go home to an apartment with no television, no Internet, no newspapers and no books except religious texts. Many will not gain the basic knowledge of how to navigate the world until they are married off around age 18, like how to write a check, how to order General Tso’s chicken or even what sex is. When you’re a child in this environment, you don’t question the fact that you can’t identify your own state on a map. And when you are molested, you don’t ask questions about that either.
In the ultra-Orthodox world, sexuality is simultaneously denied and monitored to the point of obsession. Starting in childhood, boys and girls are separated; the opposite gender remains a mystery until it’s time to marry, usually in an arranged pairing. Boys are taught to avoid looking at girls, while girls are taught that they are a source of sex and transgression, say former members of the Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish, community.
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* Joseph Stalin was the leader of a creedal nation — a nation founded upon a specific set of ideas. Ideas that millions of people, many of whom were not Russian, cherished in their hearts. Allegiance to his nation and his nation’s founding ideas could be adopted by anyone irrespective of race or ethnicity. He also, in the fullness of time, exported those ideas abroad.
He had no use for nationalism or patriotism — look what he did to those pesky Ukrainians.
Seriously, what’s for the neocuckservatives not to like?
* I love how being “one of the world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” is based totally on being called “one of the world’s leading authorities on armed conflict”. It’s not like they took his various pronouncements and predictions on armed conflict over the years and checked how they panned out and determined that he was, indeed, “one of the world’s leading authorities on armed conflict”. He is one because they say so.
* Lately the media has also been reporting a story on Trump’s father and the Klan from the 1920s. Doesn’t that mean it’s also fair game to ask media figures and intellectuals to disavow ancestors if it can be determined they ever sympathized with Stalinism? An awful lot of people were killed in the communist purges.
* Damn, the neocons forgot to create their own Cheka/NKVD to deal with the Kulaks.
Are Dzerzkinsky and Kaganovich still alive?
Maybe Nuland and Applebaum can fill that role to deal with evil Nazi Kulaks.
But oh well, they are too busy working with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine against Russia for the moment.
PS. Boot is especially incensed because he is of Russian-Jewish background.
He saw how Jewish Bolshies lost the power to the gentiles.
He sees a replay. He also knows Jews fumbled in the 90s when they could have had it all.
Given Stalin turned on Jews, Boot really means he would rather vote for Trotsky.
Trotsky than Trump. Catchy.
But mentioning Trotsky would give away Neocon origins.
* “Max Boot is a military historian and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. ”
That’s funny. I just heard once again a TV commercial which contends that “Marco Rubio is generally acknowledged to be a foreign policy expert.” About a week or so ago, I heard Karl Rove on one of the Fox News programs giving a scorecard to the various candidates on various issues, and he gave Rubio an A on foreign policy on both style and substance. This is one area where I think Rove is spouting nonsense and acting like a shill. Rove didn’t reveal what standards he wasn’t applying, which are obviously subjective. Rubio is the guy who graduated from South Miami High School with a 2.1 grade average, supposedly earned a football scholarship to Tarkio College in Missouri (which went bankrupt about a year after Rubio left after less than a year), transferred to a junior college before transferring to U of Florida. He has spent five years in the Senate where he supposedly acquired all his foreign policy knowledge. In the meantime, he has endorsed GWB’s war against Iraq, agitated for the war with Libya and has called for no-fly zones over Syria. I see no evidence that he really knows what he is talking about in the area of foreign policy. He is a very shallow lightweight imo. It’s interesting to see how the neoconservatives are always boosting ignorant people for high political positions, like Dan Quayle, GWB, Sarah Palin and now Rubio. Each one an empty slate ready for a “smart” adviser to write policy prescriptions on.
* One thing I’ve been saying for a while to anyone who would listen is that evangelicals never really cared about the Zionist project. Given their support for Trump this is undeniable. The entire evangelical-Zionist alliance was fabricated out of whole cloth. Jews, to their credit, always knew this and openly denied any connection with the crazier Hagee type shills.
* Kanye West said George W. Bush doesn’t care about black people. In truth, the GOP (especially neocons) doesn’t care about White People.
* It’s also worth noting that Boot – a “defense expert” – has never served in the military. He is yet another neo-con chicken-hawk, happily sending (mostly gentile) soldiers off to die and be maimed in wars that he, from the comfort of his well-appointed think-tank office, thinks is worth the price.
* On the ‘marginal’ concept thing in the Sailer takimag article, politicians and candidates need to invoke context along with policy.
Too often, policy issues are dealt with abstractly as ideals and principles.
But all policies only make sense within context.
It’s like we need coat in winter, not in summer.
Just because it kept us warm in winter doesn’t mean it’s good for us in summer.
So, all policies must be seen in relation to context of reality.
Every position by ALL candidates has some validity on its own as a principle… but it must be measured in context of current realities.
It’s like ‘winter coat is good’ is a valid as a concept. But it is only useful in winter, not in all seasons.
So, our position isn’t anti-immigration as a iron eternal policy but anti-immigration for NOW since the system is broken and there are too many costs.
This is where Conservatism has failed. It keeps yammering about principle regardless of context.
It still talks of Russia as if cold war is still on.
It still talks of Jews as if it’s the Holocaust when, in fact, Jews are the most powerful people in the world.
For the longest time, GOP was all about lowering taxes just when the 1% was getting richer than ever. Principle totally apart from context. We need perceptive cons than programmed cons. It’s coming down to Perceptives vs Programmeds.
Given the current context of immigration problems and foreign policy mess, Trump is better than others. Do less invading and less inviting.
* How about this proposal for mutual understanding between Neocons and gentile cons?
Neocons serve their own Jewish interests, and gentile cons serve their own gentile interests.
Gentiles ask no favor from Jews, and Jews ask no favors from gentiles.
OK?
I think gentiles would let Jews go and let Jews do their own Jewish thing. The problem is Jews won’t let gentiles go and let gentiles do their gentile thing. Jews must keep gentiles as their tools.
It’s like Willy Loman won’t let Biff go. At least Willy did feel some kind of love for Biff.
But there is only the mentality of a master over slave in the neocon attitude toward the goyim.
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Michael Powell writes in the New York Times: “The tragedy is that the adults in big-time high school and college basketball, despite attempts at reform and despite the presence of many fine student-athletes, exert far more energy trying to churn out wins than trying to provide an education. Young men like Frazier, who just three years ago was Brown’s top recruit, are collateral damage.”
Steve Sailer replies: “Why does the reporter assume that there’s something tragic about young Keith Frazier not getting much of an education? Is there any evidence that he would benefit from the academic life? Even if Mr. Frazier happened to be an intellectual diamond in the rough, we have to realize that because there’s not much positive correlation between basketball talent and IQ there exist a whole lot of young men who are much, much better basketball players than they are scholars. Should they be denied the opportunity to do what they are best at in life just because they lost the genetic lottery for brains while winning the height and athleticism lotteries?”
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A decade after the last Israeli troops and settlers left Gaza, the withdrawal remains controversial in Israel. The former Israeli settlers there bewail their loss of the wonderful lives they claim to have led in the Strip; right-wingers rail against “Sharon’s crime” and try to use it as “proof” that any move in the West Bank would also be a failure. Time to look backward and take stock.
Some eighteen months have now passed since Israel’s last “war” with Hamas in Gaza came to an end. Since then the border, lined as it is with an electronic fence that has proved all but impenetrable, has been largely calm. Primarily, I suspect, for two reasons. First, the Israeli Iron Dome system’s success in neutralizing Hamas’ most important weapons, i.e. the rockets, was beyond all expectations. Second, the damage the Israelis inflicted on Gaza during the six weeks of Operation Protective Edge was vast; sufficient, it seems, to have taught Hamas a lesson. One which, looking back, could and should have been taught much earlier.
Ever since the Operation ended, says Israeli minister of defense Moshe Yeelon, Hamas had not fired even one bullet at Israel. That does not mean this have been absolutely quiet. Some incidents were provoked by all kinds of splinter organizations. Others were staged by individual residents of the Strip who, acting more or less on their own, decided to see what they could do by firing at Israeli patrols or trying to set up IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices). In response the Israelis, obeying their reflexes, launched air strikes, occasionally killing and injuring a handful of people. In response the organizations in question, also obeying their reflexes, either launched rockets or fired mortar rounds at the neighboring Israeli kibbutzim. Amidst the occasional exchanges of fire, throughout 2015 and going into 2016 not a single Israeli was either injured or killed by anyone or anything coming from, Gaza. To be sure, luck played a role in this. Just one round or rocket hitting, say, an inhabited apartment would have changed the statistics. Still it is hard to believe that it is the only factor involved.
Looking further back, almost six years have passed since the Navi Marmara tried to break the Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza and was stopped at the cost of nine self-appointed Turkish do-gooders killed. People, incidentally, who came armed with every kind of edged weapon one could think of. At the time, the organizers threatened that the Marmara would merely be the first of many flotillas to come. Yet not only has nothing of the kind happened, but the Turks have lost much of their clout in the Middle East and are no longer in any position to bully anyone.
Back in the summer of 2006, the victory of the “extremist” Hamas over the “moderate” PLA in Gaza left most Israelis, and many non-Israeli as well, aghast. This author was one of the very few to argue that, in the long run, two weak governments, neither of which can speak for the Palestinian people as a whole, would almost certainly be better for Israel than a single relatively strong one. I still see no reason to change my view.
idf-trucks-keremshalom-novFigures on the Gazan economy are both hard to come by and unreliable. In part that is because, the two pieces of land, i.e. the Strip and the West Bank, are often seen as part of the same Palestinian economy. Still the CIA World Factbook claims that the economy grew 7 percent in 2012 and 6 percent in 2013. In 2014, due to Operation Protective Edge, it suffered a steep decline; however, UNSCO figures suggest a resumption of growth in 2015. In the lead are sectors such as construction (which went up by no less than 449 percent!) transportation and storage, agriculture, forestry and fishing, wholesale and retail trade, and mining, manufacturing, electricity and water.
Looking ahead into 2016 the PMA (Palestinian Monetary Authority) forecasts a growth of 3.3 percent. Not bad, considering the ongoing world-wide economic recession. Part cause, part consequence, of the expansion is the fact that 900 heavy trucks, crammed with merchandise of every kind, now enter the Stripe from Israel every day. To many Israeli right-wingers they are a thorn in the eye. But not one which is likely to disappear any time soon.
To be sure, both sides have been diligently preparing for the next round. Hamas has built more rockets possessed of longer range. They are now able to cover practically the whole of Israel and hit their targets much more accurately than before. Hoping to capture prisoners (hostages) if and when the next round takes place, Hamas has also been busy digging tunnels under the border. The Israelis on their part have been working on methods to detect tunnels—a surprisingly difficult task, it turns out. They are also trying to improve their early warning systems and missile defenses further still. Yet amidst all this both sides have repeatedly assured one another that escalation is not what they want. For the moment at any rate, and up to a point, live and let live seems to be the motto.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank and Israel itself hardly a day passes without some incident in which both Israelis and Palestinians (but mainly Palestinians) are killed or injured. So obvious is the reason that every half wit (but not Israeli right-wingers) can see it. In the case of Gaza, the two peoples are separated; in that of the West Bank, they are not.
Could Gaza serve as a model for the West Bank, or, to begin with, parts of it? Let’s start by putting aside all sorts of religious and ideological claims. In the world of strategy they do not count; nor is there any prospect of them convincing anyone except for part of Israel’s own population. Only one thing should count. To wit: how will Israel be stronger? With the West Bank or without it?
The main strategic argument right-wing Israelis use against a withdrawal from the lands in question is that doing so might lead to rockets being fired from them into Israel. But that is nonsense. Rockets and mortar rounds started coming from Gaza years before then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the Strip to be evacuated. Had the various militant Palestinian organizations in the West Bank wanted to, they could have used similar tactics long ago.
So it is up to Jerusalem to decide what it wants. Either an indefinite prolongation of the existing situation, with all its nasty implications for the country’s demographic balance, democracy and its standing in the world; or the erection of a wall and a withdrawal from occupied territory. Practically all of it, I would suggest. Including large parts of East Jerusalem which are purely Arab. Such a withdrawal would not necessarily have to be carried out all at once. One could start with the districts where Jewish settlements are thinnest on the ground and proceed from there, using each stage to see whether quiet is preserved and the time ripe for the next one.
After all, what does Israel have to lose? Except for the knifings, of course.
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Spurred by Donald J. Trump’s mounting victories, a small but influential — and growing — group of conservative leaders are calling for a third-party option to spare voters a wrenching general election choice between a Republican they consider completely unacceptable and Hillary Clinton.
While he has gained intense popularity on the right, Mr. Trump has alienated key blocs in the Republican coalition with his slash-and-burn campaign. For many, his initial refusal last weekend to disavow an endorsement from David Duke, the white supremacist, was a breaking point.
Two top Republicans, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, said this week that they would not vote for Mr. Trump in November.
William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, said he would work actively to put forward an “independent Republican” ticket if Mr. Trump was the nominee, and floated Mr. Sasse as a recruit.
“That ticket would simply be a one-time, emergency adjustment to the unfortunate circumstance (if it happens) of a Trump nomination,” Mr. Kristol wrote in an email. It “would support other Republicans running for Congress and other offices, and would allow voters to correct the temporary mistake (if they make it) of nominating Trump.”
Boot’s 2016 Dream Ticket
Max Boot, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, said that if efforts to block Mr. Trump fell short, he would vote against a Republican nominee for the first time in his life.
“I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump,” said Mr. Boot, who expressed optimism that Mr. Trump could still be defeated.
He added: “There is no way in hell I would ever vote for him. I would far more readily support Hillary Clinton, or Bloomberg if he ran.”
But a Stalin-Trotsky Unity Ticket would really get Max’s juices flowing.
Is anybody going to be asked to disavow their old compadre Max Boot for his avowing Stalin? Or does this game only work in one direction?
… Defections of any scale could prove lethal to Mr. Trump. He already trails Mrs. Clinton in general election polls, and polling already shows the possibility of mass desertions from the party. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey this week found that 48 percent of Republicans who do not already back Mr. Trump said they would probably not or definitely not support him in November.
What should the donor party be named? I asked that question last week and got 344 suggestions, including the Donner Party and the Banana Republicans.
Any new suggestions?
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Noam Neusner is a principal with the communications firm 30 Point Strategies and is a former White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter @NoamNeusner
There is no sugarcoating it — these are the darkest days for Republican Jews like myself. Donald Trump, the most likely Republican candidate for president, has built within our party the nearest thing America has ever seen to a European nativist working class political movement. Such movements, to put it mildly, have never been good for the Jews or allies of free thought and the free market.
Trump has a commanding lead, which he extended significantly with wins on Super Tuesday. The only way he can be stopped is if blue state Republicans — those living in New York, Maryland, California and other states whose primaries fall after Super Tuesday and contain significant numbers of delegates — side with the conventionally conservative Marco Rubio. It’s possible, though not likely.
Republican Jews are therefore beside themselves, and rightly so. Trump has proven himself anathema on so many levels that it’s hard to identify just one element of his personality or his adopted policy agenda that is particularly toxic.
It’s not just his appeal to nativism, or his crony capitalism, or his crassness, or his expressed desire for “neutrality” between Israel and the Palestinians, or his admiration for Vladimir Putin, or his quotation of Mussolini, or his approval of the crushing of Chinese democracy protesters, or his rejection of permitting any Muslims into the country, or his initial refusal to forswear the endorsement of white supremacists.
It could be any of these things, it could be all of these things, but what perhaps bothers Republican Jews most is this: They think Trump would also abuse the office’s powers. Again, the Jewish experience with overweening, oversensitive wannabe dictator-chieftains is not a good one.
The fact that Trump has a daughter who has, in marriage, embraced the Jewish faith is largely immaterial to Republican Jews. We don’t vote on the basis of personal identity or inherited identity — if we did, we would have supported Gore-Lieberman (we didn’t) and today we would support Bernie Sanders (we don’t).
Let’s assess the opportunity that was lost. At the outset of the campaign there were three or four trusted candidates who enjoyed meaningful Republican Jewish support because of what they were likely to do to repudiate and reverse Barack Obama’s policy gains: Jeb Bush (for whom I worked as a speechwriter), Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and, to a lesser extent, Scott Walker. Today, Republican Jews have coalesced around the last of these men who still stand for office: Rubio and Cruz.
… This is about the entire Republican Party.
Consider the following: Trump is bringing a lot of people into the Republican Party. The results from Republican primaries show the number of votes cast rising by significant amounts — 20% in South Carolina, 15% in New Hampshire and more than 100% in Nevada. These are voters who may or may not have voted for a Republican before, or in any election before. He might well beat Hillary Clinton in states where Republicans haven’t competed in decades.
Were Trump a conventional Republican, his rise would be something Republican Jews would quickly get behind.
The problem with Trump bringing in lots of new voters is that he’s bringing in Americans. That’s just not done. You are supposed to bring in foreign ringers to win elections, not inspire Americans.
But he is neither conventional nor Republican. That’s his appeal, and for those of us who are comfortable with conventional Republicanism, it’s a repudiation of the highest order.
We have to recognize this and decide what to do next.
Let’s wipe away our gauzy myths. We Republican Jews have believed that American families, American workers and American savers and investors form a solid spine in the party of Reagan. But that spine has been shattered by economic stagnation and job loss, opioid addiction, a breakdown in marriage and fatherhood and a sense of cultural surrender. It’s been shattered by a deep sense of resentment among Americans who distrust political power and political institutions. These Americans have concluded that the Republicans of Washington are no different from the Democrats.
The America that we have long admired and championed — a land of open opportunity, where a person could rise to the level that his energy, effort and moxie would take him, a land of justice and fairness, a land that stood proudly alone in the world when necessary, a land where the intrusive powers of the state are held at a distance, a land that was skeptical of the big dreams of faraway leaders — simply doesn’t exist for a great share of Americans. They don’t recognize it, and frankly, they believe Republicans have stopped fighting for it.
So that’s where our future lies. We have previously promised to protect this America and restore it. But we failed. Perhaps if we focused on delivering on our promise, we might also see the rebirth of the party we have called our home. Because the alternative is no political home at all.
An eloquent ending, but Neusner is perhaps too subtle and understated to get his message through to the Adelsons and Singers that it’s time for some self-scrutiny about their role in helping create the public’s dissatisfaction with the Establishment.
COMMENTS:
* I wonder if Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol consider themselves “Republican Jews” and if their various political positions are motivated less by their conservatism and more by their belief that “its good for the Jews”?
* “The fact that Trump has a daughter who has, in marriage, embraced the Jewish faith is largely immaterial to Republican Jews. We don’t vote on the basis of personal identity or inherited identity.”
What an astonishingly deranged falsehood! This whole article is about Jews voting on the basis of their personal inherited identities!
* I’m surprised no-one has yet pointed out that The Donald abstains from alcohol – just like Hitler!
* Trump always wears a neck tie too. Just like Der Fuehrer.
* You can see what really bothers American Jews about Trump: Not that he’ll become “the next Hitler,” but that he has the potential to become a competent Hitler, namely, one who will defend the interests of America’s white population, especially its working class, without Hitler’s bloody-mindedness.
* Beginning with Joseph’s sojourning in Egypt, the story of the Jews has been one of tension between acquiring the status and wealth they love (greed, pride, envy, and lust) and pissing off the indigenous people, which they rightly fear.
The pissing off the indigenous thing leads to enslavement, expulsions from Britain etc., pogroms, Spanish Inquisitions, holocausts, people hating Israel, et cetera. And this Neusner dipshit is a perfect example of the problem. If he was smart, he’d tell Jews to back Trump, because Jews have been fucking this country’s founding stock since before the 1920s (the immigration bill during which was a direct response to Jewish excesses). Since the Jewish elites and Teddy K’s ’65 bill, Jewish elites have been giving it to Americans good and hard. The loss of THAT–the complete supine submission of global Europa–is what Neusner mourns.
* I just see confusion and self-contradiction in his article. When somebody writes something like “those of us who are comfortable with conventional Republicanism” it’s an indication that they’re not really thinking critically about politics as something that is separate from and reacts to conditions in the real world. Neusner’s position is just “I like yesterday, so let’s not change anything in the political system and then tomorrow will be like yesterday too.” Frankly, that’s just not that smart.
* Trump would be good for American Jews because he will prevent hundreds of thousands of virulently antisemitic Arabs from immigrating here. So when The Forward says “good for the Jews,” it doesn’t mean American Jews. It means good for Israeli Jews. The Forward is saying Trump is insufficiently pro-Zionist.
* Jews comprise about 2% of America’s population and generally vote 80% Democratic. That means he speaks for approximately 0.4% of Americans.
* That is essentially what the neoconservatives are saying. They don’t like Trump’s non-interventionist foreign policy, which cuts against Israel’s interests, and the fact that they might be losing a seat at the table where the decisions are made.
* Here is a quote from neocon Norman Podhoretz from 1979 which dovetails your comment.
There was, to be sure, one thing that many of even the most passionately committed American Zionists were reluctant to do, and that was to face up to the fact that continued American support for Israel depended upon continued American involvement in international affairs– from which it followed that an American withdrawal into the kind of isolationist mood that prevailed most recently between the two world wars, and that now looked as though it might soon prevail again, represented a direct threat to the security of Israel.
* “What is good for Jews” is only about the current consensus among the rabbinical, intellectual and financial elite of the Jewish people. If some just minding their own business Jewish deli owning family is hacked to bits by some crazed Jihadis, or hundreds of finance MBA cubical jockeys die in 9/11, well then all the better. Their deaths will be exploited to tighten the very consensus which played a role in their deaths in the first place.
And the “Consensus” of “What is good for Jews” can be remolded and rewritten as needed. There is no external and eternal, truth, history, logic or morality. Betrayal, retribution and banishment are inevitable and mere price to be paid if it lays the ground work for a new “consensus” to be reformed based on the selective memories and histories based on victimology.
Hence the obsession of and need for elite Jews to control not just majority culture, media and political system, but to ruthlessly define which Jews are worthy of contributing to the shaping of consensus. Every other Jew who stands opposed to the consensus formation is to be labeled and dismissed as “self hating”. Every Jew of too low status to contribute to “consensus” formation is mere fodder for exploitation as victims as the “consensus” invariably brings on its own havoc and mayhem.
However, history and “facts” can be always rewritten and remolded to form a new “consensus” as needed.
As Kevin MacDonald might say, group evolutionary strategies are not concerned with enhancing the survival on any one individual member, family or even subpopulation within the group. “Sacrifices” are too be expected and even deemed necessary, what matters is that the group’s traditions, customs and most importantly “consensus” survive as much as its genetic legacy.
* The problem with having a media controlled by a handful of open borders billionaires is it cuts the feedback loop between decisions and consequences.
The cheap labor lobby has totally wrecked the lives of scores of millions of their supposedly fellow citizens but all the evidence was suppressed so it couldn’t feed back and so didn’t lead to a change in direction.
That’s the kindling part imo.
Personally I don’t think Trump is the spark; I think Trump is just mad that illegal immigrants are pushing in front of veterans with no legs.
I think the spark has been the percentage of young white kids who have gone through integrated PC schools, especially white-minority ones.
In all-white areas the psychological abuse resulting from PC schooling leads to SJWdom, depression, and various other forms of self-harming behavior but in integrated schools and especially white minority PC schools it leads to racial identity – red in tooth and claw.
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Steve Sailer writes: Israelis, empowered by their pro-Israeli political class, have been thriving in recent years. Americans, on the other hand, distracted by their pro-Israeli political class, not so much …
For many years, I’ve been arguing that Americans should pay Israelis the compliment of studying what works for them and trying it for ourselves here in America. In contrast, the GOP establishment has instead attempted to outsource Americans’ natural feelings of patriotism to the small, far-off country of Israel, while elites practice profitable globalism at home.
In their Super Tuesday speeches, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio tried to use an Israel hammer to bash Donald Trump. Cruz sneeringly lambasted him for saying he would remain “neutral” while Rubio trounced Trump for trying to stay “impartial”, as his audience booed accordingly. And Trump? Trump was racking up victories, amassing delegates and laughing all the way to the top of the Republican presidential field.
In this way, the New York billionaire is decimating the conventional wisdom, one of many, that in 2016, total and unconditional support for Israel is a prerequisite for any aspiring GOP candidate wishing to run for president; that such a pledge of allegiance to Israel, in general, and to Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular, is a threshold requirement for gaining the support of Evangelicals, who set the tone during primary season; …
But exactly a year after Netanyahu took this logic to its extreme and stood on the podium of Congress as Leader of the Republican opposition to President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the conception is falling apart. The notion that the Republican Party is a monolithic bastion of support that will withstand the test of time is evaporating. … Faced with the Trump phenomenon, Netanyahu’s Fortress GOP strategy is collapsing like a house of cards.
And it doesn’t really make that much difference whether Trump is a “phony” who is pulling the wool over the GOP’s innocent eyes, as former presidential contender Mitt Romney asserted in his astonishingly harsh speech on Thursday, or whether Trump has simply exposed the dark subterranean streams of jingoism and prejudice and resentment of Jews that were there all along.
Huh?
If Trump is the Republican candidate, never mind if he’s elected president, Israel’s place in American politics and possibly around the world will be put in question. But if Romney’s scary portrayal of Trump is even half true, that should be the least of our worries.
In the outgoing dogmatic GOP, Trump’s equivocations would have earned him a place in the all-time rogues gallery of Enemies of the Jewish People, somewhere between Obama and Father Coughlin. Today, Evangelicals shrug them off and continue to vote for Trump, as they did this week in Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
Every time Cruz and Rubio try to hit Trump over the head with an Israel club and nothing happens, it is Israel’s weakness that is exposed. Every time Trump wins a party primary without challenge from his supporters, another nail is driven into the coffin of the unshakeable alliance between Israel and America’s deep right.
And it’s not as if Trump is really anti-Israel; hardly. Like in most other complex policy issues on which he has spoken, Trump is mainly incoherent, improvising as he goes along, shooting from the lip, saying one thing one day and the opposite the next. He is “totally a friend” of Israel, Obama is “the most horrible president ever” for Israel, and the Iran deal is a joke. But Trump refuses to acknowledge United Jerusalem, wants to remain “neutral” so that he can broker a peace deal with the Palestinians, which is a challenge worthy of a master dealmaker like him. If he fails, he’s already made clear, Israel will be to blame.
Trump not only diverts the Republican leadership from uniform automatic support for Netanyahu, he is destroying the internal coalition that was the lynchpin of the party’s strong pro-Israel stance. Evangelical support for Trump has already sparked an internal rupture, which has some experts declaring the death of America’s Religious Right. …
If Trump becomes their candidate, the GOP will lose its most hawkish, most neoconservative and most pro-Israel secular elements as well. They [neocons] are repelled not only by his indecipherable positions on Israel but also by his harsh criticism of George Bush and the Iraq War, his undisguised adulation of dictators for Vladimir Putin to Bashar Assad, his all round belligerence and his neo-isolationist vision of making America great again within its hermetically sealed walls.
“His all round belligerence and his neo-isolationist vision” — Huh?
The third leg of the GOP’s pro-Israel array that Trump is eviscerating are the Jews. Although Sheldon Adelson’s ongoing silence has caused some people to suspect he will end up supporting Trump, other big time Jewish donors, including hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, have placed their money on his currently losing rivals. And the Republican hope that 2016 will finally see the long awaited migration of Jews disappointed by Obama to the GOP is dashed once again. Trump hardly stands a chance of garnering 30% of the Jewish vote, as Romney did in 2012, never mind the 40% that Rubio might reasonably be expected to receive. He’s more likely to revert the GOP’s Jewish vote in the direction of the 11% that George Bush Sr. got in 1992, or the 10% that Barry Goldwater received in 1964. …
The Jews will run away from Trump because he scares them. Because his demagoguery is ominous, his willingness to slash and burn anyone standing in his way is disturbing, his tendency to incite his supporters against other ethnic groups from rapist Mexicans to terrorist Muslims, is a source of deep anxiety. Beneath the great wave of popular support for Trump one can make out with increasing clarity the dark undercurrents of rage and resentment and xenophobia that is often seen morphing into White supremacism and abhorrence of African Americans and then, on the outskirts, bad old hatred of the Jews. The allusions to Germany in the 1930’s are absurd, no doubt, but nonetheless surfacing with ever-increasing frequency.
It’s always 1933.
COMMENTS:
* Steve, this is just Ha’aretz being Ha’aretz and prosecuting their jihad against B. Netanyahu. The Israeli joe sixpack is very comfortable with Trump and views his rise with equanimity. The agony aunts at Ha’aretz are beholden to the NYT for their view of Trump as 1933 all over again.
* The guy has a Jewish son-in-law, for christsakes. Is that enough? No…no…nothing short of groveling at the feet of Isreal will suffice.
One of the few things I liked about Obama was his tendency to keep Israel at arms length–relative to the neocons, anyway.
At some point, all this racist/Hitler accusing will wear thin. When a real ill-intentioned demagogue rises, the left may find out they’ve called “wolf” one too many times.
* Another wishful thinking op-ed from the Haaretz. They publish two types of articles:
1) How Bibi has got Israel by the balls and everything is terrible.
2) How Bibi is a moron and his world is about to collapse.
This isn’t the first time they’ve published a “Trump is Netanyahu’s nightmare” piece. Weirdly, this places Haaretz’s leftists in a conflicted position, as they find themselves admitting that Trump should actually be their preferred candidate. But they’re still as revolted by him as liberals everywhere else in the West.
* My vague impression is that Sheldon Adelson prefers Rubio and his wife prefers Cruz, but Sheldon could live with Trump, his fellow casino mogul. Perhaps Trump seems like the kind of guy you could have a productive chat with about how online gambling is a bane compared to good old tangible casinos that employ real construction workers and real croupiers? (I’d probably side with Adelson on this: gambling should be something you have to go somewhere to do in person, not just a click away on your smartphone.)
My vague sense is that Adelson is less hyperactive this election cycle. The wisdom of age?
* Donald Trump’s core support is overwhelmingly white, lower middle-class men with a high school education. He draws most of the rest of his support from white middle-class men and women. The increasingly hysterical denunciations of Donald Trump demonstrate the hatred and contempt for, and yet palpable fear of, that demographic group among American elites.
* Quite, it just shows how extreme Zionism is that they find Trump’s, with all his links to Israel and the Jewish community, modest proposal to place American interests first in the Middle East so unacceptable.
* I am feeling more and more estranged from my co ethnics lately. Israel should be solidly behind Putin and Assad, and Jews here should be supporting Trump. Nothing is worse for us, or whites generally, than mass Muslim migration to the US and Europe.
I am predicting right now that Trump will quell the neocon attacks by going over the top with pro israel statements. the best nationalist right leader in Europe is Geert Wilders and he does this. Promising to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem woud be a good start. There is no downside really, it is not like Trump is going to lose Muslim support this way. I do hope he also keeps attacking Bush and the Iraq War.
* People are looking at Trump’s demeanor and the way he interacts with the other candidates in debates. Of course, yelling people down and waving your hands a lot does not mean you’re going to pull the trigger on North Korea. Even without reasoning, people’s experience with Obama should tell them that talking like a wall-flower academic doesn’t mean you’re real peaceful, but people haven’t learned that lesson, I guess.
* Trump sounds pretty reasonable to downgrade to neutral. Netanyahu has a permanent ban on Muslim immigration and officially makes Islam a second-class religion in Israel. I don’t see any logical ground for criticizing Trump’s temporary Muslim immigration ban proposal.
* Putin is actually very popular in Israel, not only among the large Russian emigre community but among average Israelis. He is by a wide margin the most popular Foreign leader in Israel. It is only the leftist elites in Israel that despise him.
* If people are brought up with a version of their history which cuts out any bad stuff their group did and just listed the bad stuff done to them by others then I think culturally induced paranoia is the likely result – as Trump has been proving quite spectacularly.
Also if no logical explanation for the bad stuff is ever looked for then some useful insights might be missed.
(Obviously some of it will be minority prejudice / bigotry etc but all?)
For example, if wages are driven down to subsistence levels the economy will collapse and then stagnate because a prosperous economy requires disposable income. (I’d say innovation is mostly driven by disposable income also.) So if people had a habit of trying to drive wage levels to subsistence (whether thru immigration or slavery) and it always led to collapse and backlash they might decide it would be better to stop doing it.
Similarly unrestricted money-lending has the same effect as even if people nominally have disposable income if an ever increasing percentage of it goes on loan repayments for previous consumption then it’s the same as having none.
* I think they dread the diminution of their stature and influence in a Trump administration; A sort of Public Choice theory of neo-con public intellectuals if you will. Ironically , they probably wouldn’t have been marginalized to much extent had they not pursued their scorched earth campaign in the first place. Additionally I suspect (more in the case of Kristol than Boot) that they find Trump vulgar, and falling far short of what they perceive as the standard of presidential dignity. To be honest so do I, but A) I think the ship of presidential dignity sailed with the election of Bill Clinton a quarter of a century ago. and B) All other considerations must take a back seat to the immigration issue which is in the words of Ecclesiastes 1-15 “מעוות לא יוכל לתקן”
* Goldwater had a Jewish father who converted to the religion of his wife. So Goldwater was at least half Jewish by ethnicity even though he was a Christian.
Question: Which contributed more to Goldwater’s low take among Jewish voters, his religion or political ideology?
* For Jews, identifying the majority’s interests as their own would be tantamount to abandoning their jewishness.
* >the unshakeable alliance between Israel and America’s deep right
Boy are they in for a surprise when they finally figure out who Americas new “deep right wing” is, and what we think about them.
* Trump is actually relatively popular amongst Israeli Jews – which is a population enamoured with populism. Israel has fewer Ashkenazi leftists than, say, New York City. And, like in the US, these Jews find themselves disproportionately in elite positions (like writing for Ha’aretz – which no one buys). But don’t get things confused, Israel’s demographic power lies in Right-Wing, traditional communities that dominate most towns not named Tel Aviv.
Trump, to allay Israeli fears, can make a few derogatory comments about Palestinians and will find himself loved by the masses. As an Israeli Right-winger, I find it a bit embarrassing how easily one can get a “Death to Arabs” chant going in any crowd of Rightists. In any case, if Trump can use some of Netanyahu’s (own!) tactics to build support in Israel, then he’ll rise in popularity. If his campaign can say, “57% of Israelis back Trump”, and use Israeli xenophobia and illiberal attitudes against Zionist-establishment types in the US, well, that’s a winning strategy.
* Hmm, a Jew thinks that a presidential candidate should encourage Israel do whatever it wants while America pays the price. That’s novel.
Under what circumstances and to which candidate would you not offer that advice?
When does Israel have enough? When has America given enough for Israel? When can our political contests be about our needs, not yours? Can you even imagine any downsides for us Americans to be your tool, or do you believe it only does us good?
* This could all be shtick.
Obama has been very good for Jews. Even his Iran Deal was hatched by J-Street Jews.
But we are told Obama threw Israel under the bus. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
And now, Trump is bad for Israel. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Jews say one thing but feel another.
I think Jews are mainly afraid of people realizing that Jews/Israel owns the US.
I mean George W. Bush and McCain were excessively servile to Israel, and this made Jews nervous.
Better to create the impression that US politicians are NOT controlled by Jews/Israel.
Now, there may be some sincere anxieties among Israelis… but they surely know Trump isn’t anti-Israel or anti-Jewish.
Trump’s fortune is built on Jewish ties. So, there is no need for Jews to fear Trump.
I think what is really worthy worrying about is what Trump may have unleashed in the long term. Will this grass-roots nationalism stop with Trump or go beyond that?
It’s the ‘beyond’ part that is worrying to Jews.
* This is not a problem but a conflict, and in the words of Conor Cruise O’Brien, conflicts do not have solutions, they have outcomes. Hillary Clinton and along with neocons and interventionists, wants to freeze the Middle East situation by preventing or suppressing revolution in Israel’s neighbours. But this would condemn the Jewishness of Israel to inevitable ellipse, for the reasons that Mearsheimer has pointed out.
Trump is not committed to unending war in the Middle East with the objective of keeping the current Arab family dictatorships in power irrespective of the popular will in those countries, the Israel Lobby seem to be; it would lead, sooner or later to certain doom for Israel by freezing the current long-term-untenable situation. For the Jewish state to have a future, Jews will have to leave the West Bank or the Arabs will. The conventional “solution”- minded US establishment of neocons, liberal and interventionists would not stand for the necessary transfers of Arabs; do they not understand what the alternative is?
* The Republicans have been hoping to pry the Jews away from the Democrats for the last 30+ years; with absolutely no hope of ever making it happen. Jews control, fund, are the mouthpieces, and set the agenda for the Dems. And they don’t have to share the power with anyone else, if they don’t want to.
What can the Repubs offer? Jews can share power with the Evangelicals that only care about Armageddon; where only the Evangelicals go to heaven (already got their seat assignment to heaven on Jesus 1) and everybody else (jews included) dies and goes to hell for eternity. Jews seem to have ‘issues’ with Evangelicals about this; that jews assuming room temperature is part and parcel of Evangel interest.
Or share power with white gentile men, the ones that have spent the last 2000 years wailing on the Jews when they got tired of Jews not playing by the rules ( tested by college psychology types as the one type of misbehavior that the vast majority of people won’t/can’t let slide).
Or the Nationalists that observe what Israel is doing about immigration ( build walls), deport undesirables from Israel instead of giving them same rights as a citizen. Don’t allow a small minority with dual loyalties to control media and by extension the country.
Yeah, that’s something the Hebrews are having a real difficult time resisting….
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It is not hard to notice that many of these terribly anxious people are Jews.
One could argue that Jews are more emotional or that they are more sensitive to seismic shifts in society or that they are paranoid and more prone to mental illness.
To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.
In recent days, at least two patients have invoked the Republican front-runner, including one who talked at length about being disturbed that Trump can be so divisive and popular at the same time, said Howard, who practices in the District.
What had happened to Trump during his childhood, the patient wanted to know, to make him such a “bad person?”
“He has stirred people up,” Howard said. “We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. We have these social mores and he breaks all of them and he’s successful. And people are wondering how he gets away with it.”
Hand-wringing over Trump’s rapid climb, once confined to Washington’s political establishment, is now palpable among everyday Americans who are growing ever more anxious over the prospect of the billionaire reaching the White House….
Judith Schweiger Levy, a psychologist in the neighborhood, has noticed a recent uptick in Trump references among her patients, including a middle-aged businesswoman who blurted out this week that her sister is supporting the billionaire.
“She was so upset and worried that she could have a sister — someone so close to her — who would have zero problem with Trump,” Levy said. “Another patient — also a woman — all she could talk about was Trump and how he’s crazy and frightening.”
Ruminating on Trump’s effect, Levy said, “Part of the reason he makes people so anxious is that he has no anxiety himself. It’s frightening. I’m starting to feel anxious just talking about him.”
Another psychologist, Paul Saks, who practices in Greenwich Village, said Trump’s recent refusal to immediately disavow David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan’s former Grand Wizard, has riled one of his patients who is the grandson of Holocaust survivors.
“This is really resonating with him, and troubling him,” Saks said. “Just that Trump has survived and that there’s such a cataclysmic shift in the Republican Party — an institution that’s part of our way of life even if you’re not a Republican — is going to disturb a lot of people.”
Mary Libbey, a psychologist on Central Park West, isn’t hearing about Trump from her patients. But she finds herself expressing her own anxiety about him to friends and colleagues.
“It helps me to talk about it,” she said. “I’m terrified that he could win. His impulsivity, his incomplete sentences, his strange, squinty eyes — to my mind, he’s a loosely held together person.”
…What makes Trump distinct now is that he’s “a demagogue who has become a vessel for peoples’ anxiety and anger,” said Michael Kazin, a Georgetown University history professor. But Kazin likes to remind anxious friends that Trump’s slice of the Republican pie is 35 to 40 percent, and Republicans in general account for perhaps a third of the population.
“Half of his own party is against him,” Kazin said. “And even if he is elected, he’s not a hardened right-wing ideologue. Above all, he’s a great entertainer. He’s a con man who cons himself.”
…Ken Goldstein, a Los Angeles-based author and businessman who is a Democrat, recalled meeting with a business associate recently and feeling astounded when the man said he thought Trump would “be great for America.”
“You just realize you have nothing more to say to that person,” he said.
Goldstein finds small comfort imagining Trump’s defeat, if only because his followers “are still there.”
“Who are these people?” he asked. “Are they at the grocery store, are they sitting next to me at Dodger Stadium? That makes me nervous.”
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Ex-CIA officers tend to have a burn against Israel because they perceived America’s interests as often put second behind Israel’s when they were on the job.
I disagree with much of the following. I don’ think Jews have a desire to be in a war against Arabs, that conflict is entirely driven by the Arabs. Jews want to live in peace and make money and provide for their families. I don’t disrespect Arabs for hating the Jewish state. If I were in their shoes, I might do the same.
The disloyal Israel-First/Neoconservative (IF/NC) crowd seems to be having a collective and hopefully fatal seizure over Mr. Trump’s pledge to be strictly even-handed and neutral in the ongoing war between Israel and the Arabs — a war both sides clearly intend to fight to the death.
Now, many past presidential candidates have said much the same thing, but they have always added that silly, ahistorical mantra that the United States will defend Israel’s “right to exist”. But Trump did not add that mantra of the brain-dead, and so has markedly distressed the Israel-Firsters and Neocons. Indeed, they always have opposed Trump because, it seems, they sense that he will always put America first and let those individuals, nations, and groups irrelevant to the republic’s security and economic prosperity swing in the wind. I think — or at least hope — they are right.
What makes the current Israel First/Neocon seizure so hearteningly severe are not only Trump’s words and apparent America-First foreign policy inclinations, but the fact that he is getting so very many votes. “Could it possibly be,” ponder the likes of Bill Kristol, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Max Boot, Eliot Cohen, Robert Kagan, Michael Bloomberg, Peter King, Elliott Abrams, Eric Edelman, Michael Chertoff, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Bolton, “that Americans are not genuinely happy, proud, and eager to have their fellow citizens and soldier-children dying uselessly in wars motivated in large part by the U.S. interventionism we advocate and by America’s subservience to a country that does nothing but degrade the republic’s security and drain its treasury?” “Could it be,” the IF/NC’ers are wondering, “that Trump and the increasing number of voters supporting him know that we Israel-Firsters and Neocons have played them for fools, corrupted their political system and media, and done our best to keep their kids dying in wars meant to serve a foreign nation’s interests at the cost of their own?” Well, it is too soon to tell, but the words of the Israel Firsters and Neocons and their fierce hatred of Trump surely suggest that they fear their war-causing disloyalty has been identified and — at long last — their jig is about up.
Facing the next-to-last last ditch, the disloyal are nearly frantic in their support for Senator Marco Rubio. And why not? Rubio is a thorough-going IF/NC, and — as he has little money of his own — is on the payroll, according to the media, of two pro-Israel, Jewish-American billionaires. Rubio also has denounced the Founders’ approach to foreign policy, expressing his belief that the IF/NC approach to U.S. foreign policy — that is, America at war everywhere, all the time, to protect Israel — is superior to John Quincy Adams’ republic-preserving advice that the United States must never go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy.”
But Rubio, after his Super Tuesday shellacking, is circling the drain until the Florida primary sends him barreling toward the sewer, and the Neocons and Israel Firsters, as Jacob Heilbrunn has written in the National Interest, have only one place to go, and that is to Hillary Clinton, who already has few of both detestable species on her team, but, the media says, only one pro-Israel, Jewish-American billionaire.
Mr. Heilbrunn’s excellent article notes that the IF/NC was originally based in the Democratic Party and so in a sense would be going home if they side with Clinton. That they were once aligned with the Democrats is clearly true, but being aligned with is much different than being part of, and I would argue that the IF/NC have never been anything but a one-issue party of their own.
Their party — best identified as the Disloyal Party or perhaps just as Copperheads — has never had any goal other than protecting the interests of Israel and keeping the United States steadily involved in the Israel-Arab war by promoting and purchasing a U.S. foreign policy that results in wars to install “democracy” abroad, but which are, in reality, only wars that are intended to annihilate Israel’s enemies, while unnecessarily making Israel’s enemies America’s. Can any clear thinking person really believe, for example, that “Foundation for Defense of Democracies” is anything but an IF/NC tool for fomenting war against Muslims in order to protect what they describe as “the only democracy” in the Middle East?
The use of the democracy angle by the IF/NC crowd is amply demonstrated in a recent article by one of its leading lights, Max Boot, titled “The GOP’s Apologists for Tyrants”. In this piece, Mr. Boot denounces Republican presidential candidates Trump, Cruz, and Kasich for “their support for dictators” and their clear lack of enthusiasm for unnecessary overseas democracy mongering and interventionist wars. Mr. Boot lauds the usual Copperhead line and insists that overthrowing Saddam, Gaddafi, and others was the correct thing to do. The only problem, he says, is that the U.S. government did not go far enough in waging those useless and massively counterproductive wars. Only the Israel First-owned Marco Rubio, Boot declares, refuses to “embrace genocidal tyrants”, which means the Copperheads were betting that they could count on Rubio for more war.
Well, Mr. Boot, no, Trump, Cruz, and Kasich are not seeking to “embrace genocidal tyrants”, but rather are looking out for America first. They know that neither Saddam nor Gaddafi was ever a serious national-security threat to the United States; indeed, both were key and extraordinarily lethal allies — and ones we did not have to pay — in the war against the Islamists.
Saddam kept Iraq’s door locked tight and so prevented the Islamists located east of Iraq from moving westward in large numbers, and he made the Iranians little more than marginal players in the Levant. How are things looking in that area now, Mr. Boot? Gaddafi kept the Islamists at bay in much of North Africa and murdered or incarcerated every Islamist that Libya’s military and security services could get their hands on, but IF/NC wanted a pro-democracy war in Libya and got it. How are affairs in the Maghreb going these days, Mr. Boot?
And do not forget, Mr. Boot, that you and your IF/NC sidekicks insisted that the U.S. government go democracy mongering in the Middle East in the name of the Arab Spring, and then you supported the military coup in Egypt that destroyed a democratically elected regime. Now, Mr. Boot, how is all of that working out? Finally, what about that clever IF/NC plan to build a new, pro-Western democracy in Afghanistan, how is that doing? Could you check on the progress of democracy there and get back to me?
What I think Mr. Trump is saying, Mr. Boot, is that it is too bad/so sad that there are murderous dictators loose in the world, but as long as they pose no life-and-death threat to the United States there is no reason for America to militarily intervene and give them — as the saying goes — the boot. After all, if the dictators are not killing Americans and/or threatening genuine U.S. national interests, who cares? Humans are hard-wired for war, so let them fight. The U.S. government exists only to defend the republic, its commerce, and its citizens and their liberties; it is under precisely zero obligation — legal, moral, or one dreamed up by disloyal U.S. citizens — to defend any set of foreigners against the murderous machinations of the dictators who rule them or the enemies who threaten them.
The wars that disloyal IF/NC Copperheads like you champion, Mr. Boot, have invariably been greatly counterproductive for U.S. national security, the national debt, and, especially, for those you and your colleagues care the least about; namely, the parents, wives, husbands, and children who suffered the loss or maiming of their loved ones in the military while they were fighting in the unnecessary wars you and your kind demand that America fight for only one reason, to make the world safe for Israel.
So, Mr. Boot, if you and the rest of your wretched and disloyal IF/NC associates want to go to the Democratic Party and side with IF/NC’er Hillary Clinton, please go immediately and trumpet your departure from the roof tops. After all, what could be more appropriate than today’s Copperheads — a kind of snake that sneaks and strikes without warning — joining the Democratic Party, the original incubator and home of the Civil War’s Copperheads? In the decade before that war, Massachusetts’s Senator Charles Sumner was speaking when he saw one of his pro-slavery foes enter the Senate Chamber and walk toward his seat. Sumner stopped and asked, I paraphrase here, the other senators to witness that a slug was slithering across the chamber’s floor looking for a chair to adhere to. For the Republican Party, the movement of the entire IF/NC crowd to the Democratic Party would be a Godsend, a veritable slithering slug migration that would find no shortage of fellow slugs waiting for them in Hillary’s camp, and there probably would be enough chairs for all of them to adhere to.
There is, then, nothing that could strengthen the Republican Party more and attract more voters to its side than to be shed of you, Mr. Boot, and your disloyal fellow Copperheads. Be gone, good riddance, and praise God for cutting out the festering IF/NC malignancy from the Republican Party so that it can once again stand for something more than endless war and Israel First.
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