{"id":89008,"date":"2016-03-04T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89008"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:32:21","slug":"forward-how-republican-jews-utterly-failed-to-prevent-rise-of-toxic-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89008","title":{"rendered":"Forward: “How Republican Jews Utterly Failed to Prevent Rise of ‘Toxic’ Donald Trump”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From The Forward<\/em> (formerly Jewish Daily Forward<\/em>):<\/p>\n

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How Republican Jews Utterly Failed To Prevent Rise of ‘Toxic’ Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n

Noam Neusner Mar 1, 2016<\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no sugarcoating it \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 those living in New York, Maryland, California and other states whose primaries fall after Super Tuesday and contain significant numbers of delegates \u2014 side with the conventionally conservative Marco Rubio. It\u2019s possible, though not likely.<\/p>\n

Republican Jews are therefore beside themselves, and rightly so. Trump has proven himself anathema on so many levels that it\u2019s hard to identify just one element of his personality or his adopted policy agenda that is particularly toxic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just his appeal to nativism, or his crony capitalism, or his crassness, or his expressed desire for \u201cneutrality\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s powers. Again, the Jewish experience with overweening, oversensitive wannabe dictator-chieftains is not a good one.<\/p>\n

The fact that Trump has a daughter who has, in marriage, embraced the Jewish faith is largely immaterial to Republican Jews. We don\u2019t vote on the basis of personal identity or inherited identity \u2014 if we did, we would have supported Gore-Lieberman (we didn\u2019t) and today we would support Bernie Sanders (we don\u2019t).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

… This is about the entire Republican Party.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 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\u2019t competed in decades.<\/p>\n

Were Trump a conventional Republican, his rise would be something Republican Jews would quickly get behind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The problem with Trump bringing in lots of new voters is that he’s bringing in Americans<\/em>. That’s just not done. You are supposed to bring in foreign ringers to win elections, not inspire Americans.<\/p>\n

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But he is neither conventional nor Republican. That\u2019s his appeal, and for those of us who are comfortable with conventional Republicanism, it\u2019s a repudiation of the highest order.<\/p>\n

We have to recognize this and decide what to do next.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The America that we have long admired and championed \u2014 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 \u2014 simply doesn\u2019t exist for a great share of Americans. They don\u2019t recognize it, and frankly, they believe Republicans have stopped fighting for it.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* I wonder if Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol consider themselves \u201cRepublican Jews\u201d and if their various political positions are motivated less by their conservatism and more by their belief that \u201cits good for the Jews\u201d?<\/p>\n

* “The fact that Trump has a daughter who has, in marriage, embraced the Jewish faith is largely immaterial to Republican Jews. We don\u2019t vote on the basis of personal identity or inherited identity.”<\/p>\n

What an astonishingly deranged falsehood! This whole article is about Jews voting on the basis of their personal inherited identities!<\/p>\n

* I\u2019m surprised no-one has yet pointed out that The Donald abstains from alcohol \u2013 just like Hitler!<\/p>\n

* Trump always wears a neck tie too. Just like Der Fuehrer.<\/p>\n

* You can see what really bothers American Jews about Trump: Not that he\u2019ll become \u201cthe next Hitler,\u201d but that he has the potential to become a competent Hitler, namely, one who will defend the interests of America\u2019s white population, especially its working class, without Hitler\u2019s bloody-mindedness.<\/p>\n

* Beginning with Joseph\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019d tell Jews to back Trump, because Jews have been fucking this country\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201965 bill, Jewish elites have been giving it to Americans good and hard. The loss of THAT\u2013the complete supine submission of global Europa\u2013is what Neusner mourns.<\/p>\n

* I just see confusion and self-contradiction in his article. When somebody writes something like \u201cthose of us who are comfortable with conventional Republicanism\u201d it\u2019s an indication that they\u2019re not really thinking critically about politics as something that is separate from and reacts to conditions in the real world. Neusner\u2019s position is just \u201cI like yesterday, so let\u2019s not change anything in the political system and then tomorrow will be like yesterday too.\u201d Frankly, that\u2019s just not that smart.<\/p>\n

* 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 \u201cgood for the Jews,\u201d it doesn\u2019t mean American Jews. It means good for Israeli Jews. The Forward is saying Trump is insufficiently pro-Zionist.<\/p>\n

* Jews comprise about 2% of America\u2019s population and generally vote 80% Democratic. That means he speaks for approximately 0.4% of Americans.<\/p>\n

* That is essentially what the neoconservatives are saying. They don\u2019t like Trump\u2019s non-interventionist foreign policy, which cuts against Israel\u2019s interests, and the fact that they might be losing a seat at the table where the decisions are made.<\/p>\n

* Here is a quote from neocon Norman Podhoretz from 1979 which dovetails your comment.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 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.<\/p>\n

* \u201cWhat is good for Jews\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

And the \u201cConsensus\u201d of \u201cWhat is good for Jews\u201d 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 \u201cconsensus\u201d to be reformed based on the selective memories and histories based on victimology.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cself hating\u201d. Every Jew of too low status to contribute to \u201cconsensus\u201d formation is mere fodder for exploitation as victims as the \u201cconsensus\u201d invariably brings on its own havoc and mayhem.<\/p>\n

However, history and \u201cfacts\u201d can be always rewritten and remolded to form a new \u201cconsensus\u201d as needed.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cSacrifices\u201d are too be expected and even deemed necessary, what matters is that the group\u2019s traditions, customs and most importantly \u201cconsensus\u201d survive as much as its genetic legacy.<\/p>\n

* The problem with having a media controlled by a handful of open borders billionaires is it cuts the feedback loop between decisions and consequences.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t feed back and so didn\u2019t lead to a change in direction.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the kindling part imo.<\/p>\n

Personally I don\u2019t think Trump is the spark; I think Trump is just mad that illegal immigrants are pushing in front of veterans with no legs.<\/p>\n

I think the spark has been the percentage of young white kids who have gone through integrated PC schools, especially white-minority ones.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 red in tooth and claw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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